Book Title: Tattva Kaumudi
Author(s): Oriental Book Agency Poona
Publisher: Oriental Book Agency Poona

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________________ -XXII1147] TRANSLATION 73 they incite the sense-organs to activity towards their respective objects; in order that the sense-organs may not turn towards their objects, it is necessary that the said impurities should be cured; the effort made to effect this cure constitutes the first form of Dispassion, 'Yatamāna-Samjñā', the 'Endeavourstage.' (2) After this process of cure has commenced, it may be found that while some are already cured, others have still got to be cured; this sequence being there, those got to be cured have to be discriminated from those already cured; this discrimination constitutes the second stage of Dispassion, the Vyatireka-Samjñā, the Discriminationstage. (3) After the sense-organs have been rendered incapable of action, the impurities that have been cured continue to lie there in the mind in the form of a mere 'longing (or eagerness); this is the third stage of Dispassion, the 'Ekendriya-Samjñā', the ' One-organ stage. (4) The supression of even this longing towards all perceptible objectssensuous as well as super-sensuous-is the fourth stage called Vas'ikāra-Samjña. the control-stage'; this is superior to the first three stages, this has been thus discribed by the revered Patanjali : The dispassion named Vas'ikara-Samjñā ' belongs to one who has no desire for either sensuous or supersensuous objects." [Yoga-Sutra I-15].-Such is Dispassion, a property of Buddhi. 64 The eight kinds of power (147) Power also is a property of Buddhi, and it is to this that the perfections, Attenuation and the rest (Anima etc.) are due.* Of these (1) Anima (Lit. Atomic character), 'Attenuation' is the power by which one can enter the densest substances, such as stones. (2) Laghima, 'Buoyancy' is that to which There is some confusion as to the number of these perfections. As enumerated here, they appear nine; but they ought to be eight only; hence I have taken Vas'itva and Is'itva as one.

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