Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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hence occupying the gunasthānas Fourth onwards) are the persons possessing the state of mind called vedyasamvedya pada. As a matter of fact, it is because of this synonymity that we say that persons uphoding the first four yoga-viewpoints ought to occupy the First 'gunasthāna while those upholding the last four ought to occupy the gunasthanas Fourth onwards. Our reasoning runs as follows. In the presept verse we are being told that the knowledge of things properly arrived at by those possessing tedyasanxvedzapada is called the uuderstandiug of a subtle type, and since we have already been told that the Fourth yoga-viewpoint (as also those standing below it) does not exbibit the inderstanding of a subtle type the conclusion ought to be that persons upholding the first four yoga-viewpoints lack the state of mined called vedyasamvedyapada (and hence occupy the First “gunasthāna). "* :,:****
भवाम्भोधिसमुत्तारात् कर्मवज्रविभेदतः। ज्ञेयव्याप्तेश्च कात्स्न्येन सूक्ष्मत्वं नायमत्र तु ॥६६॥ bhavambhiodhisamuttāral karmavajravibhedatah / .
. jñeyavyāpteś ca kārtsnyena sūkşmalvar nāyam atra tu 1/66/
This understanding is deemed subtle because it enables one to cross the ocean of Worldly existence, because it shatters even such karmas as are comparable to vajra (i. e. to the hardest conceivable physical substance). because it covers (i. e. grasps) its object in its entirety; such subtlety is however absent in the stage under coosideration (1. e. in the stage of Dīptāmas also in the lower stages considered earlier).
[66] This verse lays down the characteristics of the understanding of a subtle type (i. e. of the understanding exhibited by those possessing vedyasamvedya pada) : viz. (i) that it is conducive to mokşa and (ii) that it covers its object in its totality. The first characteristic is going to form the basis of Haribhadra's denunciation of the 'welcomers of the worldly existence', the second that of his denunciation of narrow-minded (i. e. one-sided) sectarianism. Again, we are here reminded that the understanding of a subtle type is not possessed by persons upholding the fourth yoga-viewpoint (or any that stands below it).
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avedyasamvedyapadan yasmad āsu talholbasam / þakşicchāyājalacaraprav;ltyabham ataḥ param. 116711.35