Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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SECTION V
A SPECIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LAST FOUR
YOGA-VIEWPOINTS
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(Having discussed certain incidental matters primarily with a view to emphasizing the vital difference between the first four yoga-viewpoints and the last four Haribhadra resumes bis account of yoga-viewpoints. The verses 153-86 are devoted to a description of the last four yogaviewpoints (and then begins a discussion of certain incidental matters once more). As has been pointed out carlier, in the traditional Jalna scheme of guṇasthānas there seems to be no notions that run exactly parallel to these last four yoga-viewpoints of Haribhadra. All that can be said with certainty is that the range of these viewpoints begins from the beginning of the Fourth guṇasihāna and ends with the end of the Fourteenth. However, even this general parallelism obtaining between these two schemes should help us somewhat in following Haribhadra's account of his last four yoga-viewpoints. Thus Haribhadra, deriving inspiration from the traditional Jaina positions, considers the following to be the distinguishing features of the highest stages of spiritual development, stages that are represented by his last four yoga-viewpoints:
(i) A basic change of attitude towards the things worldly,
(ii) A strong feeling of renunciation in relation to the worldly enjoyments;
(iii) A practice of meditative concentration. Here there is not only some relation but also some difference between the features (i) and (ii). The feature (i) indicates that those very ncts of everyday life which are performed by ordinary people with a strong sense of attachment are performed by those spiritually advanced with a sense of utter detachment; the feature (ii) indicates that those very enjoyments of everyday life which please ordinary people are not at all indulged in by those spiritually advanced. It is difficult to evaluate the spiritual significance of the feature (iii) and in the traditional Jaina scheme it was not much emphasized (even if deemed.worthy of aspiration); but Haribhadra seems to have given this feature more than its due. because he had to do justice to Patanjali's list of alleged spiritual qualifications, a list whose last three members are concentration of an elementary type, concentration of a
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