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YOGAPINDU
apāyam ahuḥ karmaiva nirapayāḥ puralanam /
papasayakarań cilrań nirupakramasamiñakam //373|| The personages free from all unhappy circumstances (i.e. the great religious preachers) understand by apāya just that past karma of various types which gives rise to ignoble mental states and is designated nir.upakrama, that is, incapable of being eliminated wholesale (i.e. of being elimioated without fructifying in the least).
कण्टकज्वरमोहैस्तु समो विन्नः प्रकीर्तितः । मोक्षमार्गप्रवृत्तानामत एवापरैरपि ॥३७४|| kanțakajvaramohais tu samo vighnaḥ prakırlitaḥ /
mokşamārgapraustlānām ała crāparair api |1374|| With tbese very things in mind the others too have told us that persous traversing the path of mokşa are likely to meet obstructions that belong to three (graduated) types, viz. those comparable to the prick of) a thorn, those comparable to (the attack of) fever, those comparable to a loss of the sense of direction.
अस्यैव सानवः प्रोक्तो बहुजन्मान्तरावहः । पूर्वव्यावर्णितन्यायादेकजन्मा त्वनानवः ॥३७५॥ asyaiva sāstravaḥ prokto bahujanmāntarādahaḥ /
pūrvavyāvarnitanyājäd ekajanmā tv anāsravaḥ 1/37511 A particular species of Yoga practised (in the way described) by a particular class of people is called 'possessed of asravn (lit. inflow) when the Yoga-practiser concerned has yet to undergo a pumber of rebirths owing to the cause just mentioned (viz. the presence of irremedi. able karmas) and it is called 'free from āstava' when the Yoga-practiser concerned has no more rebirths to undergo.
आन्नवो बन्धहेतुत्वाद् बन्ध एवेह यन्मतः । . स सांपरायिको मुख्यस्तदेषोऽर्थोऽस्य संगतः ॥३७६|| āsravo bandhahelutrād bandha eveha gan mataḥ / sa sām parāyika mukhyas tad eşo'rtho'sya sangalah 1/376|| ..
Since üstava (i.e. the inflow of karmas) being the cause of karmic bondage can itself mean karmic bondage and since the real karmic bondage is that belonging to the sāparāyika type (i.e. the type caused by samparāya or kaşāya.karma) the real meaning of the word astada turns out to be the San parāyika type of karmic bondage.
Note: As noted earlier, mohanīyakarmas are the most dangerous of eight types of karmas. Kasayas constitute a sub-type of the mohanīyakarmas,
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