Sambodhi 1980 Vol 09

Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Shantilal M. Desai
his virtues and make his character sound. Without such a noble character, no service would be useful. Penance too is a requirement at this preparatory stage and that alone would enable him to undergo higher and subtle typos of penance at a later stage. Lastly he should have no anti-feeling for Mokşa. He may not have any clear concept of Mokşa in the initial stage and so he may not have an attraction for Mokşa but in any case he should not have antipathy for the highest goal. If the preliminary perfor. . mer has anti-feeling for the very goal of yoga, all his other preparation would be null and void, I would repeat here the first condition for the preliminary performance of worshipping the deities and elders. If he has patience enough to serve a deity or deities of his liking, he would naturally be guided to the clear concept of the goal of Mokşa. Moreover Haribhadra rightly states in Kārikā 139 of Yogabindu that antipathy to .. Moksa prolongs the worldly existence and it goes against the very aim of the preparatory performance. Thus Haribhadra has proved beyond doubt the preliminary necessity of such preparatory practice for the initiation in the yogio practice proper.
Before the treatment of the categories of the sādhakas is taken up in some details it is necessary to understand that they are nothing but different categories of personality as oan be explained in psychological terms. These categories of sādha as are quite different from the eight Dșstisk because the Drştis explain the eight stages of personality on the ladder of yoga. Haribhadra lays down a number of categories of sādhakas in these two books and Dr. K. K. Dixit has very well summarised them and compared them with different Guņasthānas i.e. Jain categories of sādhakas.
(1) The welcomers of worldly existence (2) The Apunarbhandhaka (3) The Samyagdrsti (4) Caritrins :
(a) Deśaviratas (b) Sarvaviratas
(c) Vītarāgas (5) The Kevalins :
(a) Sayoga Kevalin
(b) Ayoga Kevalin It must be made clear here that the first category of the Bhavabhinandi or the welcomers of worldly existence is not cited as a sādhaka but as a personality under the base of the heirachy of sādhakas. Moreover for