Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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LAST FOUR YOGA-VIEWPOINTS
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... In this stage since there has been an untying of the knot of igno
rance the wise people begiu to look at the totality of worldly happenings as if it were the children's play with toy clay-houses.
[155] In this verse Haribhara employs the concept 'untying the knot which was well known to the Jaina tradition. For in the traditional Jaina scheme of gumasthānas the 'untying of the knot' is supposed to result in the atteinment of the Fourth gunasthana. However, we already know that Haribhadra's yoga-viewpoints fifth onwards should characterize the gunasthānas Fourth onwards.
मायामरीचिगन्धर्वनगरस्वप्नसन्निभान् । बाह्यान् पश्यति तत्त्वेन भावान् श्रुतविवेकतः ॥१५६॥ mayāmaricigandharvanagarasvapnasannibhān / bahyān paśyati tattvena bhāyān śrulavivekataḥ 1/156||
With the help of the discriminatory knowledge acquired from a proper digesting of) scriptures the wise man looks at the external objects as if they were a juggler's trick, a mirage, a fata morgana, a dream.
अबाह्यं केवलं ज्योतिर्निराबाधमनामयम् । यदत्र तत्परं तत्त्वं शेषः पुनरुपप्लवः ॥१५७॥ abahyaṁ kevalan jyotir nirābādham anāmayam / yad atra tat pram tattvam seșaḥ punar upaplavaḥ 1/15711
In this stage the non-external light (i. e. the light of discriminatory knowledge that is free from all disturbance and all ailment is alone treated as the ultimate truth while everything else is treated as a mere puisance.
एवं विवेकिनो धीराः प्रत्याहारपरास्तथा । धर्मवाघापरित्यागयत्नवन्तश्च तत्त्वतः ॥१५८॥
evam vivekino dhiraḥ pratyahara parās tatha / dharmabadhāparityagayatnavantaś ca tattvataḥ 11158||
• In this way the persons possessed of discriminatory knowledge who are serene-minded and whose sepse-organs follow the lead of mind rather than pursue their respective objects make efforts to genuinely get rid of obstacles standing in the way of religious conduct. The following is how they reflect].