Studies in Haribhadrasuri

Author(s): N M Kansara, G C Tripathi
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology

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CHAPTER 1
The Yoga-śataka of Haribhadrasūri
DAYANAND BHARGAVA
In the course of his comparative studies in Haribhadra's Yoga, Dr. Nathmal Tatia has worked between 19511 and 19862 on the Yoga-bindu (YB), the Yoga-drsti-samuccaya (YDS), the Yogaviņśikā (YV), and the Sodasaka (S), but he has somehow not touched upon the Yoga-śataka (YS). The present author attempts to fill this gap.
According to the Yoga-śataka, Yoga is that which unites one with liberation.3 Yoga is thus the threefold path of right knowledge, right faith and right conduct.
According to Patañjali, Yoga is the stoppage of the psychical activities, 5 whereas in Jainism it is the stoppage of all psychical as well as physical and vocal activities, included in ūsrava, which is the cause of bondage, and freedom from it (samvara) is the ultimate means of final emancipation. Yoga, consisting of disciplined activities, leads to the stoppage of all the activities (a-yoga); just as the Samprajñāta-samādhi leads to the Asamprajñāta-samādhi in Patañjalis Yoga. .
What is worthy of our special attention is the order in which Haribhadra has set forth these three constituents of the path of liberation. In contradiction to the traditional order, he places right knowledge prior to right faith. Thus, besides indicating his love for knowledge, Haribhadra has suggested that faith cannot