Yogabindu

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

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YOGABINDU
(7) Forther Account of the Last Pudgalavarta (incidentally of the 'Welcomer of the Worldly Existence') :
भवामिनन्दिनः प्रायखिसंज्ञा एव दुःखिताः । केचिद्धर्मकृतोऽपि स्युलोकपक्तिकृतादराः ॥८६॥
bhasabhinandinaḥ prayas trisaṁjñā eva duḥkhitāḥ | kecid dharmakṛto'pi syur lokapaktikṛtādarāḥ ||86||
At that time (i. e. in the pudgalavartas earlier than the last one) people are 'welcomers of the worldly existence', are usually under the sway of the three defects of character technically called Sañjñā, are a miserable lot; and even though some of them undertake religious observances they do so with sole regard for lokapakti (to be defined in v. 88).
Note: The Sanjñās are enumerated as four (sometimes also as ten), viz. anxiety for food (āhāra-sañjñā), fear (bhaya-sñjñā), attachment for worldly possessions (parigraha-sañjñā), sex-passion (maithuna-sañjñā). The commentator says that the last of these is here kept out of purview by the author because in certain cases of the type of persons under description it might be present in an unmanifested form.
क्षुद्रो लाभरतिर्दीनो मत्सरी भयवान् शठः । अज्ञो भवाभिनन्दी स्यान्निष्फलारम्भसंगतः ॥८७॥
kṣudro labharatir dino matsari bhayavan saṭhaḥ | ajño bhavabhinandi syan niṣphalarambhasangataḥ |187]]
As for the 'welcomer of the worldly existence' he is petty, profithungry, miserable, jealous, fear-stricken, cunning, ignorant, and busy doing futile things.
लोकाराघनहेतोर्या मलिनेनान्तरात्मना ।
क्रियते सत्क्रिया सात्र लोकपक्तिरुदाहृता ॥ ८८ ॥
lokärädhanahetor ya malinenäntarālmanā [
kriyate satkriya sa'tra lokapaktir udāhṛtā ||88||
By lokapakti we mean these observances which are in fact befitting of the noble persons but which have been undertaken by someone just with a view to pleasing the commonfolk and with an unclean mind.
भवाभिनन्दिनो लोकपक्त्या धर्मक्रियामपि ।
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bharabhinandino lokapaklya dharmakriyām api mahato hinadṛṣṭyoccair durntam tadvido viduḥ ||89||