Lecture On Jainism

Author(s): Lala Banarasidas
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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( 44 ) Şutras of Patanjali are better known, let us examine them, and let us see if any importance is paid therein to Vedic sacrifices as a source of obtaining eternal bliss.
Gentlemen, in the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali there is no reference to Vedic sacrifices as being helpful, On the contrary you find in Pada 2, Sutra 30, inention of Yama as including ahimsa, satya, asteya, brah. macharya, and aparigraha.
अहिंसा सत्यास्तेय ब्रह्मचर्या परिग्रहायमाः ॥१॥
This Yama is reckoned as accessory to Yoga, In Sutra 31, these five restraints that form Yama are called Mahavratas if they are observed in all conditions of the Chitta. ON ETA 28#FAvtarfsat: ará TR #ETGARPU
"These are the great austerities of all stages, irrespective of jati, desha, kala, and samaya."
“Thcy arc imperative in all conclitions or stages of the thinking principle, irrespective (anarachchhinna) of these four conditions of kind, &c., i. c., it clocs not mean that I shall not kill a Brahman,' ..................... ........................................................... but that • I shall not for any purpose whatsoever, kill any one, at any place, at any time. The others should be explained in the same way. Thus when the practices are universal without any qualification, they are called
grcat austerities' (Malavratas.) Their interrupted observancc is not so." (Translation of Yoga Sutras, Dr. Rajendra Lal Mitra, p. 93).