Yogabindu

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

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INTRODUCTORY
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Thus yoga is the sole instrument of realizivg the nature of things (like soul etc.); for a necessary definte realization of this. nature of things takes place through yoga and through nothing else.
अतोऽत्रैव महान् यत्नस्तत्तत्तत्त्वप्रसिद्धये ।। प्रेक्षावता सदा कार्यो वादग्रन्थास्त्वकारणम् ॥६५॥ ato'atraita malan gātnas tallattaltva prasiddhaye . .
preksāralā sada kārzo vādagranthas iv akaranaın 1/651/ Hence tith a viets to realizing the true nature. of these things and those an intelligent man should always make great efforts in this very direction (i.e. in the direction of practising yoga) for in this connection the polemical texts are certainly of no use whatsoever.
उक्तं च योगमार्गस्तपोनिषूतकल्मषैः । भावियोगिहितायोच्चैर्मोहदीपसमं वचः ॥६६॥ " वादांश्च प्रतिवादांश्च वदन्तो निश्चितांस्तथा । तत्त्वान्तं नैव गच्छन्ति तिलपीलकवद् गतौ ॥६॥" uktai ca jogamārgajñais taponirdhūtakalmaşaiḥ / bhāviyogihilayoccair mohadipasamam vacaḥ 116611 " vādāmś ca prativadāmś ca vadanto niścilars tatha /
tallvāntam naiva gacchanti ilapilakavad galau 1/67/" Those who are well conversant with the path of yoga and have washed off their sips with the help of penance have emphatically' uttered the following words for the benefit of future yogins, words that are 'like a lamp for dispelling (the darkness of) ignorance: "Those who advance well-devised arguments and counter-arguments ( against each other ) do not succeed in realizing the ultimate nature of things, their behaviour resembling that of the animal who is yoked to the oil-présser and is making rounds after rounds (without forming any notion of the exact distance it has travelled )." ? (5) Adhyātma as the Chief Means.of Attaining Yoga :
____ अध्यात्ममत्र परम उपायः परिकीर्तितः।
Tat Farinha da atha: 118 Cll. adhyātmam atra parama upāyaḥ parikirtitaḥ/
gatau sanmārgagamanan yathaiva hy a pramadinaḥ.116811 The best way of doing (i. e. of realizing the true nature of things') is adhyülma -- just as the best way of undertaking a journey is to follow tries. path without showing any sign of negligence,