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are adhyatma?, bhavana2, dhyāna, Samata 3 and the last Vșttisamkşaya4. Here the accumulated and obscuring karmas are destroyed for ever and the soul attains omnisciences and final emancipation.
In Yoga-drsţi-samuccaya, Haribhadra presents a novel plan of classification of Yogic stages. The core of this scheme is the concept of Drsţi which means attitude towards truth. The most important feature of spiritual development is acquisition of love of truth (Samyag-drșți ). The gradual purification of its love of truth takes place corresponding to the purification of soul. So long the soul has not cut the knot and attained purification, our attitude is bound to be wrong, and perverse called as avidyā, mithyātva or darśana-moha. Without purification of the soul, we can have only common place attitude (ogha-drsti ) as opposed to right attitude (şad-dịşți ) or attitude of the spiritually advanced soul (yoga-dřşçi ). Haribhadra listed eight kinds of gradual development of love of truth (drşți ) corresponding to the eight-fold stages of Patanjali's Yoga. Haribhadra refers to the consensus of opinion of a number of authors regarding the stages of Yoga in his Svopajñavștti.8 His love of truth is so great that he can never be sectarian. Haribhadra asks us to realize the truth by means 1. Yoga-bindu of Haribhadra with Svopajñavrtti, pp. 17-18,
pp. 358-359. 2. Ibid, pp. 360-361. 3. Ibid, pp. 364-365. 4. Ibid, p. 31. 5. Ibid, pp. 366-367. 6. Yoga-dşşți-samuccaya of Haribhadra, ed. Prof. L. Suali,
Ahmedabad, 1912, p. 12. 7. The eight love of truth ( drsțis ) are — 1. Mitra ( YDS,
p. 22, pp. 22-40 ), 2. Tara ( YDS, pp. 41-48), 3. Bala ( YDS, pp. 49-50 ) 4, Dipta ( YDS, pp. 57-58 ), 5. Sthira (YDS, pp. 152-154 ), 6. Kanta ( YDS, pp. 160-162 ),
7. Prabha ( YDS pp. 168-169 ), 8. Para ( YDS, p. 179 ). 8. Ibid, p. 16.
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