Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

Page 62

VOGADRȘTISAMUCCAVA
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In the form of birth as human beings in the Karmabhūmis they have chances to get the best among the seeds of religion and yet they are so dull-witted that they do not utilize this seed in an agricultura) operation of the form of the performance of virtuous acts.
[83] According to the mythological geography of the Jaines Karmabhūmis are those regions of the universe the residents and human residents at that of which alone can attain mokṣa in their present life. There are also various other alleged characteristics of the Karmabhūmnis.
बडिशामिषवत् तुच्छे कुसुखे दारुणोदये । सक्तास्यजन्ति सच्चेष्टां धिगहो दारुणं तमः ॥८४॥ badisāmişavat tucche kusukhe dāruņodaye
saktās tyajanti saccestañ dhig aho darunan tamah 1/84|| Greedy for wretched pleasures that are petty and ones conducive to horrible consequences-like fish for meat attached to the fish-hook (meant for catching fish)--these persons refrain from various acts. Oh ! what a terrible ignorance.
अवेद्यसंवेद्यपदमान्ध्यं दुर्गतिपातकृत् । सत्संगागमयोगेन जेयमेतन्महात्मभिः ॥८५।। adedyasamoedya padam andhyan durgatipāłakyti
satsangāgamayogena jeyam etan mahālmabhiḥ 118511 Avedyosañvedya pada is thus the blindness that makes one stumble into unhappy states of existence; the poble souls should gain victory over it with the help of the company of the saintly personages on the one hand and the scriptural texts on the other. (c) A denunciation of Logic-Chopping and of the Theological Sectarianism
resolting from it:
[The verses 86-152 contain Haribhadra's denunciation of logicchopping, in the course of which he incidentally--though at length (covering the verses 102-42)-argues against theological sectarianism and wbich he concludes with ad appeal to his fellow human beings that they should follow the path of good conduct the great ones traverse. Expressed as they are in a non-technical language Haribbadra's arguments make easy reading even if one might occasionally - or even frequently-find them
1. It is perhaps only in the verse 148 that Haribhadra makes use of a highly technical Jaipa concept - though one that has been introduced earlier. He there in effect says : 'One should not be afraid of giving up his pet positions when proved untenablc, for at the time of mokşa one has almost to give up even virtues". Here the reference is to the Jaina notion that in thc guriaslianas twelfth onwards a man's virtues cease to be kşāyopašamika and become kşayika- so that one can say that in the guņasthanas twelfth onwards all virtues except kşavika ones have to be given up.