Yogadrstisamuccaya of Haribhadra Suri (Study)
by Riddhi J. Shah | 2014 | 98,110 words
This page relates ‘Influence of the Yogadrishtisamuccaya (Introduction)’ 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 “Influence of the Yogadrishtisamuccaya”.
Chapter 6.1 - Influence of the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya (Introduction)
The Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya of Haribhadrasūri is a master piece in Jain Yoga tradition. When we observed Jain literature on Yoga carefully, we found three treatises namely:
- Yogasāraprābhṛta,
- Dvātriṃśad-dvātriṃśikā and
- Adhyātmasāra.
There are many verses of these three treatises which resemble in words as well as in meanings with the verses of the Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya. Though Haribhadrasūri and his Yoga works are highly regarded by his successors, Ācārya Śubhacandra and Hemacandrācārya, who have composed valuable treatises on Yoga[1] , do not seem to be referring Haribhadrasūri’s Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya in their treatises on Yoga. The following is the brief account each of the afore-mentioned three treatises.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
See Jñānārṇava of Ācārya Śubhacandra and Yogaśāstra of Hemacandrācārya.