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YOGAVIMŚIKĀ
of the comprehension of the activities of a released soul is to be treated as subtle in nature and to be technically called anālambana. (On the alternative reading : "...............By an incorporeal entity we understand a released soul, and it is the comprebension of the activities of a released soul that constitutes a subtle yoga alambana (while yoga with a subtle alambana is to be technically called anālambana)"
Note: It is with the help of the present verse that we have deduced Haribhadra's definition of the õlambana and anālambana types of yoga.
एयम्मि 'मोहसागरतरणं सेढी य केवलं चेव । तत्तो अनोगजोगो, कमेण परमं च निव्वाणं|॥२०॥ eyammi mohasāgaralaranan sedhi ya kevalan ceva /
tatto ajogajogo, kameņa paramam ca nivvāņam 1/2011 As a result of practising the anālambana type of yoga one crosses the ocean of delusion, a crossing that marks the completion of the process called Sreni-ārohana; after that, one first attalas omniscience, then performs the meditative trance that involves the cessation of all bodily, mental and vocal operations, and finally attains miokşa.
Note : The Jaina tradition posits eight general types of Karmas, of which the most dangerous is technically called mohanīja (lit. the type wbich causes delusion). Sreni-ārohana (more precisely, the Kșapaka type of śreni-ārohana- for there is also another type of śreņi-ārohana whose fuoction is different) is the technical name for the process that culminates in the utter destruction of the mohaniya type of karmas. It is further believed that a soul that has got rid of its mohaniya karmas becomes omniscient. Lastly, the tradition maintains that just on the eve of attaining mokşa a man performs a meditative trance - of a very brief duration - that involves the cessation of all mental, bodily and vocal operations. All these notions are in Haribhadra's mind while composing the present verse. From the point of view of our text his most crucial contention is that one who performs the analambana type of yoga successfully completes the process of (kşa paka-)śreni-arohana.
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