Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

SR No.: 011128
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 139
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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.::. GENERAL ACCOUNT OF VOĞA-VIEWPOINT 29 is accompanied by (if not actually determind by) a corresponding removal of the Karmic vell i.e: of the nature of veil of the eightfold Kormas.
प्रतिपातयुताश्चाद्याश्चतस्रो नोत्तरास्तथा । सापाया अपि चैतास्तत्प्रतिपातेन नेतराः ॥१९॥ pratipātayutāś cadyas calasro nottarās talha / sāpāyā api caitās talprati patena netarāḥ ||1911
Of these the first four are liable to degenerate but not so the last four; arid these firs! four are liable to bring about uuhappy states of existence (ilke residence in hell ect.) precisely because they are liable to degenerate, but that is not the case with the last four,
प्रयाणभङ्गाभावेन निशि स्वापसमः पुनः । विघातो दिव्यभावतश्चरणस्योपजायते ॥२०॥
prayāṇabhangābhāvena nisi svāpasamaḥ pnnaḥ | ... vighato divyabhāvataś caraṇasyopajāyale 1/2011
In the case of the last four also there does arise some kind of obstacle in ethical conduct (i.e. in ethical progress) as a result of brith among the gods, but this is like the night-time sleep (of a caravau, say) which does not put an end to the journey itself
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(19-20] In these verses Haribhadra divides eight yoga-viewpoints. into two broad groups, one consisting of the first four viewpoints and the other of the remaining four. We are told that one upholding a viewpoint included in the first group can well show signs of degenera: tion but one upholding a viewpoint included in the second group can never do that; the latter will either make progress or remain where he is. This over-optimism of Haribhadra is not shared by the Jaina tradition which concedes the possibility of degeneration not only on the part of those occupying the First guṇasthāna but also on the part of those occu- . pying the Fourth guņashāna and the like; (it is only in the case of one as advance as a kşapakaśreni-ārohin the the tradition denies the possibility of degneration; but then it visualizes the possibility of one occupying the gunasthānas upto the Eleventh without beivg kşa paka. śreni-ārohin).
. . 1. We have carlier pointed out that Haribhadra has no use for the concept of the
Eleventh gunasthāna and also that be has no use for it precisely because it involves the concept of a man's degeneration from a considerably advanced stage of sptritual development: .