Yogashastra of Hemchandracharya

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Surendra Bothra
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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ruler of Bharat (country), holding sway over a mighty kingdom, acquired perfect knowledge.
पूर्वमप्राप्तधर्माऽपि,
परमानन्दनन्दिता ।
योगप्रभावतः प्राप्ता, मरुदेवा परं पदम् ॥ ११ ॥
Meaning: Marudeva, enjoying spiritual trance, reached the highest status through the yogic power, though she had not got any experience as a nun in her previous life.
Explanation :To be entitled to emancipation does not require a condition that, like Bharat, one should have passed a monk's life in the previous birth.
Marudeva, in the very first existence as a human being, liberated herself through hard and intense practice of the yogic process. This proves that yoga alone can work wonders, and lead to salvation. There is no condition that for liberation one needs to have passed an ascetic's life in a previous birth.
ब्रह्म-स्त्री-भ्रूण - गो-घात - पातकान्नरका तिथेः I दृढप्रहारि-प्रभृतेर्योगो हस्तावलंबनम् ।। १२ ॥
Meaning: It is yoga only which provided protection to such criminals as Dridhaprahari, who was about to visit hells on account of the sins he incurred through slaughtering Brahmins, women, children and cows.
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Explanation :Repentance for sinful deeds, eagerness to be free of sins, faith in the words of great men, forgivenness, patience, purity of thought—all these
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