Yogabindu

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

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INTRODUCTORY
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Now even the religious observances of a 'welcomer of the worldly existence', inasmuch as they are of the nature of lokapakli and hence. involve an attitude of meapness in relation to a thing inherently sublime (i.e. in relation to religion), are conducive to extremely better conse. quences--this is the view of those who are an expert on the matter.
धर्मार्थ लोकपक्तिः स्यात् कल्याणाझं महामतेः । तदर्थं तु पुनर्धर्मः पापायाल्पधियामलम् ॥९०॥ dharmārtham lokapakli” spal kalyāṇāngan mahāmatch /
tadartham iri punar dharmaḥ pājāyāl padhiyām alam 1/9011 So far as a wise man is concerned even his loka pakli (i.e. his attempt to please the commonfolk), inasmuch as it is undertaken for the sake of religion, is something conducive to welfare; so far as fools are concerned even their religious observances, inasmuch as they are undertaken for the sake of lokapakti, are conducive to a great sin.
Note: Let it be noted that in this verse the word lokapakli is given only a part of the meaning ascribed to it in the verse 88.
लोकपक्तिमतः प्राहरनाभोगवतो वरम् । धर्मक्रियां न महतो हीनताऽत्र यतस्तथा ॥९॥ lokapaklimataḥ prāhur anābhogavalo varam | dharmakrijā na mahato hinatā'Ira jalas latha 1191||
The religious observance of an unsophisticated man but one used to lokapakti is deemed better than that of a cunning man used to lokapakli); for in his case there does not take place (as it does in that of the cunning man in question) degradation of a sublime thiog (like religion).
तत्त्वेन तु पुन: काऽप्यत्र धर्मक्रिया मता । तत्प्रवृत्त्यादिवैगुण्याल्लोभक्रोधक्रिया यथा ॥९२ ।
talivena tu punar naikā'py alra dharmakriya mata /
tat pravşattyādivaigun jāl lobhakrodhakriya yatha ||92|| Really speaking, however, beither of the two types of religious observance just spoken of is a genuine such observance; for both lack the pecessary accessories like pravýtti etc. (that go with a genuine religious observance), just as an act of greed or an act of anger Jacks them.
Note: The commentator tells us that pravỊlli etc. mean four things, viz. prav;lti, vighnajaya, siddhi, viniyoga. These are conceived as the various factors comprising spiritual enlightenment and (together with a fifth factor called pranidhāna) they have been defined by Yašovijaya in his Duālrimsaddvālrimsikā 10.10-15.