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given by the experts on yoga the name 'meditative trance' while the same in its culminating stage (i.e. in the stage when all karmas have been eliminated) has been given the uame mokşa.
Note : Since the fourteenth gunasthāna, even if it involves the cessa tion of all the operations, is meant to eliminate all the remaining karmas it is perhaps not improper to describe it too as characterized by acti. vity of some sort.
संयोगयोग्यताभावो यदिहात्मतदन्ययोः । कृतो न जातु संयोगो भूयो नैवं भवस्ततः ॥४९७॥ samyogayogyatābhāvo gad ihālmatadanyayoh /
ksto na jālu saħyogo bhūyo naivam bhavas tataḥ |/497|| Since in this culminating stage of the proceess in question there is brought about the cessation of a soul's capacity to get connected with a foreign element this soul will no more get connected with a foreign element and will therefore 110 more suffer from worldly existence.
योग्यताऽऽत्मस्वभावस्तत् कथमस्या निवर्तनम् । तत्तत्स्वभावतायोगादेतल्लेशेन दर्शितम् ॥४९८॥ yogyala''Imasvabhāvas tal katham asyā nivarlanam / tallatsvabhāvatāyogüd elal lesena daršitam ||498//
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It might be asked how there can come about the cessation of a capacity that constitutes a soul's essential nature; to this our reply is that thus to cease is the very nature of the capacity in question. A slight elaboration of this reply will follow soon.
स्वनिवृत्तिः स्वभावश्चेदेवमस्य प्रसज्यते । अस्त्वेवमपि नो दोषः कश्चिदत्र विभाव्यते ॥४९९॥ svanivsttiḥ svabhāvas ced evam asya prasajyate /
alas tv edam api no doṣaḥ kaścid atra vibhāvyale 11499// It might be objected that to treat cessation as being natural to i capacity inherent in a soul amcurts to attributing cessation to this soul itself; but we are ready to grant that position (i.e. the position that a soul is in some sense a perishable entity) because we see no harm in it.
परिणामित्व एवैतत् सम्यगस्योपपद्यते ।
मात्माभावेऽन्यथा तु स्यादात्मसत्तेत्यदश्च न ॥५००॥ pariņāmitva evaitat samyag asyopapadyale / almabhāte'nyathā tu srüd almasallely adaś ca na 1/500/1
