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. Desal
an addition of a new operation. All this happens in the personality of the Sadhaka and naturally his personality grows fast and each stage assumes a new form and gets a new movement, and a new operation. He has to give up the wrong tendencies as he progresses and rises higher in the personality growth, and gets on new and healthy tendencies by addition of new psychic operations at each stage of his very fast evolution. His faith in the good increases at every stage and his faith in himself becomes stronger too. In this wise at each stage he assumes a new and a higher and a more integrated personality. The eight Drstis thus represent eight stages of personality growth, If the Sadhaka's effort really assume Tivrasamvega he gets to the soul in no time, says Patañjali. Swami Vivekanand says that such a Sadhaka can become a perfect yogi in eight months. Such is the capacity of Tivrasamvega which is the sole capital of a true sädhaka.
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Dr. K. K. Dixit has rightly stated at the very start in his introduction to Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya, that Haribhadra mainly discusses the problem of an ideal personality in this book. Pandit Dalsukhbhai Malavnia in his preface has suggested that Haribhadra divides spiritual evolution of a Sadhaka into eight stages i.e. eight drstis. The Sadhaka achieves new vision on each stage of the evolution and that is why Haribhadra seems to have named them as Dṛṣṭis. As suggested by Pandit Malvania Haribhadra seems to have adopted the word Drsti from the Buddhist doctrine of eight Dṛṣṭis but he seems to have worked them out in accordance with Patanjali's scheme of eight yogangas or eight Yogafactors. These eight Dratis form the main architectonic not only of Yogadrstisammuccaya but all the yoga-concepts of Haribhadra. They form into one body of Yoga and represent his whole concept of yoga. Other concepts on the Yoga are the aids and work as pillars to this main body of Yoga. It is worthwhile to see how Haribhadra treats each of the Dṛṣṭis. I have thought it fit to compare each of them with the corresponding Yoga-limb. of Patanjali. Before that, it is useful to glance at and study the comparative limbs of yoga in different Yoga-systems.
Haribhadra's
Dritis
1. Mitra
2. Tärä
3. Bala
Patanjalis
Yogängas
Yama
Niyama
Asana
Bhagavaddatta's List
Adveşa
(Non-antipathy)
Jijñāsä (Keen desire to know) Śuśrüşa (Desire to listen)
Bhadanta
Bhaskara's List
A-kheda
(Non-Weariness)
Anudvega (Non-disgust)
A-Ksepa (Non-distraction)