tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Sanakhya,
397
entertaining friendliness, compassion, satisfaction and indifferenee -- as pertaining respectively to the Happy and Unhappy, the Righteous and the Unrighteous."'! Indifference to happiness and unhappiness is the main virtue which automatically makes the restraint on other desires easy. The Yogin should not feel a sense of deprivation and of desperation to turn away from the world of enjoyment. He must, therefore, possess a sense of genuine contentment, which might give him enhanced vigour in his struggle for the final achievement.
The Yogin has to overcome the various impediment in his way by special exertion and conscious efforts. Patañjali enumerates the impediments as follows - “Illusion, Self-consciousness, Attachment; Aversion and Yearning for life are the impediments.'2 Each of these impediments has its own nature which is described in the following ways - "Illusion consists in regarding the non-eternal eternal, impure as pure, pain as pleasure and non-Self as Self." Illusion is thus the false notion of things. It consists in the misconceptions of things from which deception is caused. "Self-consciousness (eferat) is the apparent identification of the perceiver ---- faculty and the perception faculty.” The sense asmitā is caused by confusing the perception or buddhi for the perceiver - the soul. Further —"Attachment (TO) is that which
1 Ibid. Sūtra 33, p. 57. 2 Jha Ganganath (Tr.): Pātanjala Yoga Sūtrāni, p. 82. 3 Ibid. Sūtra 5, p. 82. 4 Ibid. Sūtrā, 6, p. 82..
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