Yogabindu

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

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YOGABINDU
In the case of either the feeling that he is undergoing the experience in question is not a genuine one but an erroneous mind-construct, a workmanship of his own fertile brain.
भोगाङ्गशक्तिवैकल्यं दरिद्रायौवनस्थयोः । सुरूपरागाशङ्के च कुरूपस्य स्वयोपिति ॥१९॥ bhogāngaśaklivaikalyan daridrāyauranasthayoh /
surūparāgāšanke ca kurīpasza svayo siti ||19011 The poor man lacks a necessary factor of sensuous enjoyment (viz wealtb), the man who is not young lacks the capacity for such enjoyment; as for the ugly man, even if he is full of passion for the beauty of bis spouse he is skeptical about her love for bimself.
अभिमानसुखाभावे तथा क्लिष्टान्तरात्मनः । अपायशक्तियोगाच्च न हीत्थं भोगिनः सुखम् ॥१९१।। abhimūnasukhābhūve iathū klisļāntarālmanah/
apāyasaktiyogāc ca na hilthan bhoginaḥ sukham ||19111 Thus a man sufferivg from the deficiencies in question does not really enjoy sensuous pleasures, and that because his introspection reveals to him no feeling of pleasure, because he experiences a positire feeling of pain (in the form of dissatisfaction), because he is likely to find himself in unhappy situations.
अतोऽन्यस्य तु धन्यादेरिदमत्यन्तमुत्तमम् । यथा तथैव शान्तादेः शुद्धानुष्ठानमित्यपि ॥१९२॥ ato'nyasya tu dhanzāder idam atjantam uttamam/
g'athā lathaiva śāntādeh śuddhānuşthānam ily api ||192// On the other hand, the man of a contrary description--earlier spoken of as fortunate etc.-- experiences in full the best enjoyment of sensuous pleasures; in a like manyer, the man who is self-restrained etc. manages to undertake a pure type of ethico-religious performauce-- this is the position.
क्रोधाद्यवाधितः शान्त उदात्तस्तु महाशयः । शुभानुवन्धिपुण्याच्च विशिष्टमतिसङ्गतः ॥१९३॥ krodhadyabādhitaḥ śāntă udällas in mahāśayaḥ |
śubhānubandhipungāc ca višistamalisangataḥ ||193// A self-restrained man is one whose inind is not vitiated by anger etc., a high-minded man is one whose mental make-up is noble; the man of these two descriptions is additionally possessed of a special type of understanding as a result of his having performed an uninterrupted series of virtuous acts,