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Yoga-jissuchchay
Those who practice, who are adorned with the name and form of Dravya-achaya, Dravya-upaadhyaaya, Dravya-sadhu, Dravya-tapasvi, etc., and who have devotion for Bhava-achaya, etc., are the true seeds of yoga, not those who are Dravya-achaya, etc. Dravya-achaya - Dravya-sadhu, etc., are like counterfeit rupees, believing in them is like believing a fake rupee to be real, and it is not real. Therefore, only Bhava-achaya, etc., are valid. Those who are of the external vision, the natural people, they see the external form, etc., and consider it to be sainthood, they are deluded by the superficial appearance, and they consider the ignorant Dravya-lingis to be their gurus and worship them! Counterfeit rupees do not yield the value of a paisa when spent! Because - Bhava is the first ling, Dravya-ling is not the ultimate reality, Bhava is the cause of guna-daan, as Jin Bhagwan says. The external scriptures are abandoned for the sake of the purification of Bhava, but the internal abandonment of the scriptures of raga-dvesha, etc., is nil.
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But those who are yogis with the staff of yoga, they do not give any existence to the Bhava-less Dravya-ling, they only look at the Bhava-atma-parinaam, they give importance to the Bhava-lingi who is Bhava-atma, they evaluate Darshan-jnana-charitra-tap, etc., based on the measure of the manifestation of Bhava-ling's self-awareness, they accept the true, genuine, principal, rupee-like Bhava-lingi. Because they know well that - the metal is counterfeit and the imprint is counterfeit, or the metal is counterfeit and the imprint is real, these two types are like counterfeit rupees, worthless Dravya-lingi sadhus, they are completely invalid and unacceptable; and the metal is real but the imprint is counterfeit, or the metal is real and the imprint is also real, these two types are like silver rupees, true, valuable Bhava-lingi sadhus, and they are completely valid. Therefore, they accept both types of Bhava-sadhus - those who are sadhus by Dravya and those who are sadhus by Bhava, or those who are not sadhus by Dravya but are sadhus by Bhava. How much Atma-guna has manifested in a particular person? How far have they progressed in yoga? In what stage of yoga are they? What is their guna-sthana? Is their inner mind (kashya-mundan-rupa) purified or not? Have they become a true, ultimate, sadhu 'muni' by Atma? etc., they investigate. Because they are truly aware of its characteristics, they know
x" भावो हि पढमलिंग ण दव्वलिंगं च जाण परमत्थं । मवेद जारळमू मूळरेमाळ नळ स्थिતિ ।।” etc.
Shri Kundakundaacharya, inspired by Bhava
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तत्र बाला रतो लिंगे वृत्तान्वेषी तु मध्यमः । पंडितः सर्वयत्नेन शास्त्रतत्त्वं परीक्षते । गृहत्यागादिकं लिंग बाह्य शुद्धि विना वृथा । न भेषजं बिनारोग्यं वैद्यवेषेण रोगिणः ॥ " Shri Chaviyat Ha Dva