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YOGABINDU
Since the concerned deliverance from sin has for its object a (prior) commission of some prohibited act or the like it (i. e. such a deliverance) turns out to be the best means of purifying one's states of mind. मैत्री-प्रमोद-कारुण्य-माध्यस्थ्य परिचिन्तनम् ।
सत्त्व - गुणाधिक-क्लियमानाप्रज्ञाप्यगोचरम् ||४०२ ॥
maitri-pramoda-kārunya.mādhyasthyaparicintanam | sattva-guṇādhika.kliśyamānā prajñāpyagocaram ||402||
One should develop the feeling of friendliness, joy, compassion, and neutrality respectively in relation to the totality of beings, those superior to oneself, those suffering from pain, and those incapable of being taught (and thus corrected).
विवेकिनो विशेषेण भवत्येतद् यथागमम् ।
तथा गम्भीरचित्तस्य सम्यग्मार्गानुसारिणः || ४०३ ॥ vivekino visesena bhavaty etad yathāgamam |
tatha gambhiracittasya samyagmārgānusāriṇaḥ ||403||
A development of the feelings in question particularly takes place-in a manner prescribed by the scriptural texts-in the minds of those who are possessed of discriminatory wisdom, who are serene-minded, and who properly pursue right path (i.e. the path of righteousness).
एवं विचित्रमध्यात्ममेतदन्वर्थयोगतः ।
आत्मन्यघीति संवृत्तेर्ज्ञेयमध्यात्म चिन्तकैः ॥ ४०४ ॥
evam vicitram adhyālmam etad anvarthayogataḥ | almany adhili samvṛtter jñeyam adhyatmacintakaiḥ ||404||
Those who give thought to spiritual matters should thus grasp the nature of adhyatma in its various forms, a nature which in each case properly tallies with the etymology of the word adhyālma-viz. atmani adhi, meaning 'that which is seated in soul.'
(3) Vṛttisamkṣaya Described;
भावनादित्रयाभ्यासाद् वर्णितो वृत्तिसंक्षयः ।
स चात्मकर्मसंयोगयोग्यतापगमोऽर्थतः ॥४०५॥ bhavanaditrayabhyasad varnito vṛttisamkṣayah |
́sa cātmakarmasamyogayogyatāpagamoʻrthalaḥ || 405 ||
Vṛllisamkṣaya (i.e. the fifth and the last species of yoga) has been described (in the yoga texts) as a product of the repeated practice of the three species of yoga, viz. bhāvanā etc. (i.e. bhāvanā, dhyāna, samaṭā), and, really speaking, it is identical with 'the elimination of a soul's capacity to get connected with Karma',
