Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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YOGADRȘTISAMUCCAYA
Viewed thus even tbat pleasure wbich is a couscquence of virtuous acts proves to be dependent on something other than itself; bence in accordance with the definition (just formulated) this plensure has to be treated as but pain.
(173) An alternative - and better attested (because quoted by Yaso. vijaya in the Dratrimsaddvatrimsika 24. 19)-reading for tallaksananiyo. gatah' is 'dhyānajam tālluikanı sukhanı'; in that case the later half of the verse will mean: 'hence this pleasure is in fact but pain while real pleasure is that born of meditative coucentration'.
ध्यानं च निर्मले बोधे सदैव हि महात्मनाम् । क्षीणप्रायमलं हेम सदा कल्याणमेव हि ॥१७४॥ dhyanam ca nirmale bodhe sadaiva li maltālmanam / ksinaprayamalam hema sala kalyanam ca hi ||17411
On acconnt of their understanding having been frced from all defilement the great souls are always in possession of nicditative concentration; certainly, a piece of gold rid of its (admixture of) impurities is always good to look at.
सत्प्रवृत्तिपदं चेहासङ्गानुष्ठानसङ्गतम् । महापथप्रयाणं यदनागामिपदावहम् ।।१७५॥ प्रशान्तवाहितासनं विसभागपरिक्षयः । शिववर्त्म ध्रुवावेति योगिभिर्गीयते ह्यदः ॥१७६॥ एतत्प्रसाधयत्याशु यद्योग्यस्यां व्यवस्थितः । एतत्पदावहैपैव तत्तत्रैतद्विदां मता ॥१७७॥
satpravşltipadam cehāsargānusthānasangatam | mahapathaprayānam yad anāgamipadavaham ||17511
praśāntavāhitāsamjñaṁ visabhāga parikşayaḥ / śivavarima dhruvadhyeti yogibhir gīyale hy adah [/176||
etat prasādhayaty aśu yad yogy asyam yyavasthitah | elatpadavahaisaiva tat tatraitadvidam mata ||17711
That advanced state of spiritual development which may be called the state of a detached performance of actions, which is something akin to a journey on the Great path (i. e. on the path of , mokşa), which is conducive to the state of no-return (i.e. to the state of moksa), which