Yogabindu

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

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YOGBINDU
Just as in the course of purification (through appropriate processes) a jewel or a piece of real gold goes on assuming never and fewer fine properties, so also does a soul (in the course of purification through ethico-religious practices).
तत्प्रकृत्यैव शेषस्य केचिदेनां प्रचक्षते ।
आलोचनाद्यभावेन तथानाभोगसङ्गताम् ॥१८२॥ latprakrtyaiva seșasya kecid enām pracakşale | alocanadyabhāvena tathānābhogasangatām //182||
Some authorities, however, maintain that in the case of a non-Apunarbandhaka the preliminary performance is by nature characterized by a particular type of lack of perseterance' caused by an absence of reflection etc.
युज्यते चैतदप्येवं तीने मलविषे न यत् । तदावेगो भवासङ्गस्तस्योच्चैर्विनिवर्तते ॥१८३।। yujyate caitad apy evai tīvre malavise na yat/
tadāvego bhavāsangas tasyoccair vinivartate ||1831) There is some sense even in the contention of these authorities; for so long as the poison of defilement rages there (in a soul) in an intense form the 'attachment for worldly existence'--which is comparable to a fit caused by the poison in question--does not get diminished in the least.
Note: The idea is that the soul of a person who is not yet even an Apunarbandhaka is so much possessed of defilement that the person's attachment for the worldly existence is not diminished in the least-which in turn means that the person has not yet developed the feeling of 'non-antipathy towards mokşa' that is an indispensable constituent of 'preliminary performance'.
सक्लेशायोगतो भूयः कल्याणाङ्गतया च यत् । तात्त्विकी प्रकृतिईया तदन्या तूपचारतः ॥१८४॥ sankleśājogato bhūyaḥ kalyānāngalayā ca yat/
lättviki prakļlir jñeyā tadanjā tūpacāratah ||184|| For that nature of a man) which will lead to no further entangle. inent in the spiritual disturbances and to an ever increasing acquisition of the spiritual benfits is to be treated as genuine (from the point of view of 'preliminary performance'), the rest. as not genuine.
Note: That is to say, being an Apunarbandhaka is the minimum spiritual qualification of undertaking 'preliminary performance'.
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