Yogadrstisamuccaya of Haribhadra Suri (Study)
by Riddhi J. Shah | 2014 | 98,110 words
This page relates ‘Utthana (interruption)’ of the study on the Yogadrstisamuccaya: a 6th-century work on Jain Yoga authored by Haribhadra Suri consisting of 228 Sanskrit verses. The book draws from numerous sources on traditional Yoga. Three important topics are stipulated throughout this study: 1) nature of liberation, 2) a liberated soul, and 3) omniscience.—This section belongs to the series “The Eight Yogadrishtis and the nature of a Liberated Soul”.
Chapter 4.4b - Utthāna (interruption)
Haribhadrasūri says that the dīprā dṛṣṭi beholder is free from interruption [i.e., utthāna] either mental or related to psyche (citta) while performing yogic practices. It is so because he owns continuous flow of calmness in his inner self[1] . It is called praśāntavāhitā in yogic terminology. It is defined as follows by Upādhyāya Yaśovijaya in his auto commentary on Dvātriṃśad Dvātriṃśikā.
The lines are:
“praśāntavāhitāyāḥ = praśamaikavṛttisanatāsanasya abhāvo manaḥprabhṛtīnāmudrekānmadā'vaṣṭabdhapurūṣavad.... || 18.16 || ”
The mental interruptions arise in the absence of praśāntavāhitā. It is also referred by Patñjali in his treatise Yogasūtra. Various commentators have explained the term praśāntavāhitā in their commentaries on Yogasūtra.
Haribhadrasūri says that since the dīprā dṛṣṭi holder believes in true companionship of the religion, considers it to be greater and more important than his own life, listens spiritual discourses attentively, no mental or any internal interruption arises in the subject in question while performing yogic practiced[2] .
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
, na yogotthānavatī tathāvidhapraśāntavāhitālābhena alamatyatharm,... || 57 ||
–Auto-commentary on Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya (2010)