Yogadrstisamuccaya and Yogavinshika

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

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YOGADṚSTISAMUCCAYA
The case of this man (i. e. of the soul having attained mokşa) is like the ordinary case of a man cured of an ailment; or neither can it be said that he has now gone out of existence, or that he has not been cured of his ailment or that he was not earlier suffering from this ailment
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भव एव महाव्याधिर्जन्ममृत्युविकारवान् । विचित्रमोहजननस्तीवरागादिवेदनः || १८८ ||
bhava eva mahāvyādhir janmamṛtyuvikāravān | vicitramohajananas tivrarāgādivedanaḥ ||188||
The worldly existence is of the form of a terrible ailment which has got birth and death for its concomitant disturbances, which produces div. erse types of delusion, and which causes acute sensation of attachment etc.
मुख्योऽयमात्मनोऽनादिचित्रकर्मनिदानजः । तथाऽनुभवसिद्धत्वात् सर्वप्राणभृतामिति ॥ १८९ ॥
mukhyo'yam atmano'nādicitrakormanidānajaḥ | tatha'nubhavasiddhatvāt sarvaprāṇabhṛtām iti ||189||
It is the chief ailment of a soul and is caused by the beginningless series of karmas of diverse types; for in the form described above it is directly experienced by all beings whatsoever.
एतन्मुक्तश्च मुक्तोऽपि मुख्य एवोपपद्यते । जन्मादिदोषविगमात् तददोषत्वसङ्गतेः ॥ १९०॥
etanmuktas ca mukto'pi mukhya evopapadyte | janmadidoṣavigamat tadadoṣatvasangateḥ ||190||
Again, it is when cured of this ailment ( i, e. of the worldly existence) that a man can chiefly be said to have been cured of an ailment; and when that has happened it becomes proper to say that the man now suffers from no disturbances caused by an ailment, for the disturbances like death etc. are now really gone.
तत्स्वभावोपमर्देऽपि तत्तत्स्वाभाव्ययोगतः ।
तस्यैव हि तथाभावात् तददोषत्वसङ्गतिः ॥ १९१ ॥
tatsvabhavo pamarde'pi tattatsyabhavyayogataḥ | tasyaiva hi tathābhāvāt tadadoṣatvasangatiḥ ||191||
Even though certain features that had characterized the soul till now have vanished from it it certainly retains its inherent nature and