Book Title: Yogabindu
Author(s): Haribhadrasuri, K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ MISCELLANEOUS 131 : If a soul is treated as something undergoing transformation then alone cau this behaviour on its part (i. e. cessation of a capacity inhe. Tent to itself) find a proper explanation; for otherwise the soul will have to be treated as (entirely) present even after it has become (entirely) absent—which is not the case (inasmuch as soul continues to exist in some sense even after it has perished in some sense). स्वभावविनिवृत्तिश्च स्थितस्यापीह दृश्यते । घटादेर्नवतात्यागे तथा तद्भावसिद्धितः ॥५०१॥ . svabhāvaviniurttiś ca sthilasyā pīha dịśyate / ghaļāder navatālyāge tathā tadbhāvasiddhitah //501// As for the cessation of a nature (i. e. of a natural property) it is found even in the case of a thing that continues to exist; e. g. this is what happens in the case of a jar or the like that has given up its - newness while itself continuing to exist. नवताया न चात्यागस्तथा नातत्स्वभावता । घटादेन न तद्भाव इत्यत्रानुभवः प्रमा ॥५०२॥ navatāyā na cālyāgas tathā nātatsvabhāvatā / ghaļāder na tadbhāva ily alrānubhavaḥ pramā 11502|| Here it is not the case that the jar - for example - does not give 'up its newness, 11or that this newness was not a nature (i.e. a natural property) of this jar, nor that this jar does not (somehow) exist (after having given up its newness)--all this is a matter of ordinary experience. (8) The Above Jaina View 'Applied to the Question of Yoga-practice : योग्यतापगमेऽप्येवमस्य भावो व्यवस्थितः । सर्वोत्सुक्यविनिमुक्तः स्तिमितोदधिसन्निभः ॥५०३॥ yogyatāpagame'fy cvam asya bhāvo vyavasthitaḥ / sarvautsukyavinirmuktah stimilodadliisannibhah 11E031/ Thus eveu alter a soul has given up its capacity to get connected with karma it itself continues to exist-free from all anxiety and as comparable to a calm ocean. एकान्तक्षीणसंक्लेशो निष्टितार्थस्ततश्च सः ।। निरावाधः सदानन्दो मुक्तावात्माऽवतिष्ठते ॥५०४॥ ekantakşınasankleso nisthitarthas lataś ca sah / nirabadhaḥ sadānando muktāv almā'vatisthale 11504/1 After that (i.e. after the cessation of the capacity in question) a soul-which is absolutely rid of all defilement, which has accomplished

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