Sambodhi 2007 Vol 31

Author(s): J B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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HEENA KOTAK
SAMBODHI
strong feeling, who attaches not undue value to this frightful worldly life and who maintains proprieties in whatever he does.
b) The Samyagdrsti has a desire to listen to scriptural discourses, a sense of attachment for religious things, a vow to offer as far as it lies in one's competence etc. - humble services to the preceptor and the deities
To classify this class of sadhaka, it is denoted that if there is the antipathy against the prohibited things and the attachment towards the enjoined things, mentioned in scriptures, the sādhaka remains impure. Secondly, a pure sādhaka ( technically called sāmayika) implies an identical attitude of neither antipathy nor attachment towards both i.e. the prohibited and enjoined things. The mental states of this pure sāmayika is the concentrated state of mind (ekāgratā) identified by Vyāsa in his bhāsya on Yogasūtras. In this state of citta, the purification of citta is begun basically though there is impurity in citta in some extent.
c) The Căritrin traverses the path of emancipation which, however, is the same thing as the path of righteousness. As contrasted to a caritrin, the earlier two sādhakas have simply set their eyes on the path of Moksa.
Similarly in PYS ( Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra), it is found that there are mainly three classes of Yogins according to the means employed for achieving higher stages in Yoga Sādhanā, viz. mild (mrdu), middling (madhyama) and intense (uttama). One employs mild means, moderate means and intense means
When a caritrin attains a higher stage, he is called vitarāga i.e. having vairāgya in Hindu tradition. Absolute freedom from attachment is necessary for liberation. And Patañjali states vairāgya in the Yogasūtras as a higher means to reach the path of Yogao.
The state, pertaining to the samyak caritra, is the highest stage in the path of Yoga. Samyak caritra presupposes Sanyak darśana and Samyak jñana. Samyak darśana is a kind of purified state of consciousness that enables the soul to realize and to comprehend tlie right thing as it is. And in the absence of samyak darśana, the knowledge cannot be apprehended. The samyak darśana turns the Soul in the right direction, samyaka jñāna illumines the path and samyak caritra leads to the Highest Goal.