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YOGABINDU
Selfrintrospection is to be instituted after a religious performance has been begun, for as a result of the fructification of a past evil karma here there arises fear (as to a likely interruption etc. of the performance in question) in the miod of the agent concerned. With a . view to calming down this fear-which is accompanied by a pervert tendency on the part of the agent's mind-it is a justified procedure to take proper recourse to a preceptor etc.-just as at the time of all ordinary fear etc. we take recourse to a place of shelter etc. This takiog recourse to a preceptor etc. will certainly put an end to the evil karma (whose fructification is responsible for the rise of fear and of the mind's perversion).
सर्वमेवेदमध्यात्म कुशलाशयभावतः ।
औचित्याद् यत्र नियमाल्लक्षणं यत् पुरोदितम् ॥३९६।। sarvam evcdam adhyālman kusalāśayabhāvataḥ |
aucityād yalra niyamāl laksanam pat puroditam (1396|| All these (i.e. the acts like an assessment of one's capacities) are certainly adhyālma because they are characterized by an auspicious state of mind and because they invariably satisfy the definition of adhyālma laid down in the verse 358. (2-iii) As Deity-Worship, Deliverance-from-Sin, Friendliness, etc.
देवादिवन्दनं सम्यक् प्रतिक्रमणमेव च । मैत्र्यादिचिन्तनं चैतत् सत्त्वादिप्वपरे जगुः ॥३९७॥ devādivandanaṁ samyak pratikramanam eva ca |
mailryādicintanaṁ caitat sattvādişv apare jaguḥ 11397|| The others have maintained that adhyālma consists of a proper worship of the deities etc., a due deliverance from sin that has been committed owing to negligence, and a development of the feeling of friendliness etc. (i.e. the feeling of friendliness, compassion, joy, neutrality) in relation to all living beings etc. (i.€. in relation to all living beings, those in misery, those superior to oneself, those incapable of being corrected).
Note: Pratikramana is the technical name for that constituent of a Tain's daily religious observance which has to do with the sins a man might have committed owing to negligence and which is supposed to deliver the man from these sins.
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