Yogabindu

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

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YOGABINDU
The form of a soul's connection with matter differs from case to case, and since of this difference there seems to be 10 other cause except the nature of the soul concerned let this nature be granted to be the actual such cause.
स्वभाववादापत्तिश्चेदत्र को दोप उच्यताम् । तदन्यवादाभावश्चेन्न तदन्यानपोहनात् ॥७८॥. svabhāvavādāpaltis ccd atra ko doşa ucratām |
tadanyavādablāvas cen na tadanyāna pohanāt //78|| It might be objected that our position amounts to embracing, the. doctrine of svabhāva (i.e. the doctrine whicb explains all phenomena as being due to the very nature of these things and those). But we ask as to what is wrong with that doctrine. It might be replied that an accep. tance of this doctrine weans a denial of causality to every other factor (i.e. every factor other than the nature of things). To this we reply that the denial in question is not intended by us.
कालादिसचिवश्चायमिष्ट एव महात्मभिः । सर्वत्र व्यापकत्वेन न च युक्त्या न युज्यते ॥७९॥ kälādisacivas cāyam ista eva mahālmabhiḥ |
sarvatra vāpakatvena na ca zuklyā na yujyale 1/7911 For as accompanied by time etc. this (i.e. the nature of things ). has actually been admitted by the learned ones to be a universal causal factor ; and there is nothing illogical about such an admission.
तथात्मपरिणामात् तु कर्मबंधस्ततोऽपि च । तथा दुःखादि कालेन तत्स्वभावाहते कथम् ॥८॥ tathālmapariņāmāt tu karmabandhas tato’pi ca /
tatha duḥkhādi kālena tatsvabhāvād sle katham ||80|| A particular type of modification (i.e. experience) undergone by a soul causes the corresponding type of karmic bondage which in its turn produces pain etc. (in this soul) when the appropriate time arrives; now how can all this come about except due to the nature of the soul in question ?
वृथा कालादिवादश्चेन्न तद्वीजस्य भावतः ।
अकिंचित्करमेतच्चन्न स्वभावोपयोगतः ॥८१॥ vrtha kālādivādaś cen na tadbijasya bhāvataḥ|
akinciskaram etac cen na svabhāvopayogatah ||81|| It might be objected that on our thesis it will be futile to posit time etc. as causal factors (in the production of an effect); to this we