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V. III
HARIBHADRA'S STUDIES IN YOGA
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The soul develops an irresistible urge for the realization of the transcendental self and reaches the eighth stage of spiritual development on the ladder of annihilation (ksapakaśreni). The concentration becomes more steadfast at this stage. The soul has now achieved full detachment from the world, and earnestly proceeds onwards to the realization of the truth. It now does not rest until it has reached the consummation. The soul is then in the ninth gunasthāna and is pressing forward to the twelfth on the ladder of annihilation. It has now revealed its full capacity (samarthyayoga)' for spiritual development and is bound to reach the twelfth stage and attain the knowledge of the transcendental self. In this state the soul attains concentration on the abstract attributes. Of course, it has not realized those attributes. But it has an ardent spiritual urge for the realization of them. This is anālambana yoga. The soul is detached from the world and is on the verge of realizing the self. It has not yet realized the self, but is only striving for it. And so it is not concentrated on any object whatsoever at this stage. This is the reason why the concentration is without any object." The soul is here compared with an archer, the ladder of annihilation with bow, the realization of the self with the target and the concentration with the arrow. The anālambana yoga lasts until the arrow is shot. The arrow is sure to pierce the target. The soul immediately attains realization of the self as the consummation of the concentration. The soul, as we have stated, concentrates upon the abstract formless (arūpin) attributes of the transcendental self in the anālambana dhyāna. The distinction therefore between the sālambana and the anālambana yoga is this that in the former one concentrates upon an object having form (rūpin) while in the latter on a formless object (arūpin)." Yaśovijaya, following Haribhadra, says that this anālambana yoga is known as samprajñāta samādhi in another (that is, Patañjali's) system. The consummation of this anālambana concentration is omniscience which, according to Yasovijaya, is the state of asamprajñata samadhi of Patañjali's system. The functions of the mind and the sense-organs cease when omniscience is achieved, and so there is annihilation of all the transformations of the mind
It is a technical term for the meaning whereof vide infra, p. 300. 2 Cf. samarthyayogato ya tatra didrkşe 'ty asangasaktyādhyā.
sā 'nālambanayogaḥ proktas taddarśanam yāvat.-ȘP, XV. 8. 3 Cf. tatrāpratişthito 'yam yataḥ pravsttaś ca tattvatas tatra
............... tenā 'nālambano gitaḥ.-$P, XV. 9. 4 Cf. drāg asmat taddarśanam işupāta-jñāta-mātrato jñeyam
etac ca kevalaṁ taj jñänam yat tat paraṁ jyotih. ---SP, XV. 10. - Cf. rūpi-dravyavişayam dhyānam sālambanam arūpivişayam ca nirālambanam iti-Yasovijaya's Tikä on YV, 19.
6 eşa eva samprajñātaḥ samādhis tirthāntariyair giyate--Ibid., YV, 20.
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