Yogabindu

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

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YOGABINDU तस्मादचरमावर्तेप्वध्यात्म नैव युज्यते । Flat Fetaalden agtH49191 ye# 118 311 tasmäd acaramāvarleşv adhyālmań naiva yujyale /
kāyasthitataror jadvat tajjanmasv ümaram sukham //931/ Hence in a pudgalāvarla earlier than the last one it is impossible for one to acquire adhyālma, just as it is impossible to acquire divine pleasure on the part of a soul which is leading the life of a plant and is destined to lead the same type of life for a good number of births to come.
Note: Plants are considered to be one among the meapest types of body that a soul can acquire; the utterly juanimate entities like earth, water, fire and air are supposed to be still meaner types.
तेजसानां च जीवानां भव्यानामपि नो तदा । यथा चारित्रमित्येवं नान्यदा योगसंभवः ॥९४॥ taijasānām ca jīvānām bhavyānām api no tada / gatha caritram ily cuaṁ nānyada yogasambhayaḥ 11941/
Just as all self-controlled conduct is impossible on the part of a soul which, though entitled to attain moksa (in the long run), is yet leading the life of fire (or of air), so also is yoga impossible on the part of a soul which is undergoing a pudgalāvaria earlier than the last one.
Note: Cāriira is a highly technical word but it can roughly be translated as 'self-controlled conduct'.
That certain souls (called abhavya--as contrasted to bhavya) are destined never to attaiu mokşa is a Jaina tenet. It is the commentator's suggestion that the author here intends to mention fire as well as air.
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तृणादीनां च भावानां योग्यानामपि नो यथा । तदा घृतादिभावः स्यात् तद्द्योगोऽपि नान्यदा ।।९५॥ tộnādinām ca bhāvānūîn jogyānām api no gatha
tadā ghțlādibhāvaḥ syāl tadvad yogo’pi nānyadal/9511 Just as grass etc., which are such entities as are doubtless capable of turning into clarified butter etc. in the long run, do not actually do so as long as they remain grass etc., so also is the acquisition of yoga impossible on the part of a soul as long as it undergoes pudgalāvarla earlier than the last one, 1 A reads atstai 2 A reads °द्योयोऽपि
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