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ON APUNARBANDHAKA
That this performance, even when it is pure only in respect of its object (i. e. when it belongs to the first-and the least advanced-of the three eatis described types of ethico-religious performances), should be deemed desirable is but proper; this aspect of the problem we have already touched upon ip brief.
अपुनर्बन्धकस्यैवं सम्यग्नीत्योपपद्यते । तत्तत्तन्त्रोक्तमखिलमवस्थाभेदसंश्रयात् ॥२५१॥
apunarbandhakasyaivas samyagnilyo papadyale / :: taltattantroktam akhilam avasthābhedasamśrayāt 11251||
Thus all that has been said by the various schools of thought (by way of characterizing the early stages of Yoga-realization) turns out to be a logically justified account of the Apunarbandhaka--of whom there are several types (gradated according to the level of spiritual advancement). ..
Note: Here ends Haribhadra's account of an A punarbandhaka and in the next verse there begins that of a Sanyagdrști. But we should remember that the verses 203—9 gave us a description of a Samyagdrsti rather than that of an Apunarbandhaka. In the present verse we are being told that the stage of Apunarbandhaka-hood is divided into several sub-stages aud it will be useful to remember that the entire stage of Apuparbandhakahood is itself but the uppermost sub.stage of the wider stage called the First gunasthāna.
