Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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GENERAL ACCOUNT OF YOGA-VIEWPOINTS 27 about the matter we simply give below the three lists of spiritual qualifications supposed to arise in succession by the authors whom Haribhadra attached importance :
Susrūşa
Haribhadra's propo- Patañjali's Bhagavaddatta's . Bhadanta Bhāskara's sed Name of the List
List
List Yoga-viewpoint concerned 1. Mitra
Yama
Adveşa . A-kheda (=Certain Desirable =Nov-antipathy) (=Non-weariness)
Traits of Character) 2. Tara
Niyama វិកāsā
An-udvega (=Certain Desira- (Desire to know) (=Non-disgust).
ble Traists of
Character) 3. Bala Asana
A-ksepa (=Postures of (=Desire to (Non-distraction) Sitting)
Listen 4. Diprā Prānāyāma
Sravana
An-utthāna (=Breath-Control) EListening) (Non-interruption 5. Sthira Pratyahara
Bodha
A-bhranti (Sense-Control) (Understanding) (=Non-illusion) 6. Kanta Dharana Mimāṁsā
An-anyamud =Elementary (Cogitation) (=Not finding Concentration)
Pleasure in
anything else) 7. Prabha Dhyana Pratipatti
A-ruk (=Medium Concentra- (=Acceptance) (=Non-allment)
tion) Samadhi Pravrtti
An-âsanga (=Supreme Concen- (=Implemen- (Non-attach. tration) tation)
ment) 'सच्छूद्धासंगतो बोधो दृष्टिरित्यभिधीयते ।
असत्प्रवृत्तिव्याघातात् सत्प्रवृत्तिपदावहः ॥१७॥ sacchraddhūsangato bodho dịştir ity abhidhayate / asat pravrttivyāghālāt satpravsttipadāvahaḥ ||17||
8. Para
By viewpoint' (ie. by yoga-viewpoint) we here mean that type of understanding which is coupled with right faith (i.e. faith in religion) and which, as a result of annihilating unwholesome tendencies, is conducive to a state of mind characterized by wholesome tendencies.