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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FIRST FOUR YOGA-VİEWPOINTS
is dealing with the process of passing from the First gumasthāna to the · Fourth and in this process the stage of a pūrvakaraña is supposed to
bring about what is technically called granthibheda or 'untying the koot (of spiritual afflictions like attachment, aversion etc.). Herice when Haribhadra speaks of the last yathaprav;ltikaraña as being proximate to granthibheda he is in a way uttering a platitude; for the last yathapraorttikarana is by definition a pallapravrttikaraņa that is necessarily-followed by apūrvakarana (and hence by granthibheda) and then by anivịttikarana. It ..also goes almost without saying that the last yathāpravșttikaraña must
take place during the course of tbe 'last round of matter-reception' which is a period when a soul's capacity to receive matter-particles is the least; hence Haribhadra's statement that at the time of the last yathāpra. vritikaraña a soul happens to be in possesion of a diminished capacity to receive matter-particles is also almost a platitude,
अपूर्वासन्नभावेन व्यभिचारवियोगतः तत्वतोऽपूर्वमेवेदमिति योगविदो विदुः ॥३९॥ apūrvāsannabhavena vyabhicāraviyogataḥ / tatloato'pūruam evedam iti yogavido viduḥ ||39||
Because this state (i.e. the state of the last pathapravsttikaranu) stands close to (i.e. immediately precedes) the one called apūrvakarana and because it does not fail to achieve the purpose in view it is considered to be truly unprecedented by the experts on yoga.
::.[39] In this verse Haribhadra is making explicit an idea that was implicit in the preceding one: For to say as was done in the preceding verse that the last yathapravritikarana is proximate to granthibheda implies that it is proximate to apūrvakarana, However, in the present verse Haribhadra wants to say that the last yatha pravsttikarana is unlike the other pathapravsitikaranas which too are theoretically proximate to a pūrvakarana but which are not actually followed by apūrvakarana; moreover, apūrvakaraña is so called because it is an unprecedented state and
Haribhadra bere wants to say that the last yathapravsttikaraña too, being : unlike the other pathapraorttikaranas, is an unprecedented state just like the apūrvakaraña proper.
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