Yogabindu

SR No.: 011123
Original Sutra Author: Haribhadrasuri
Author: K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 163
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 8 MB

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YOGABINDU
भिन्नग्रन्थेस्तृतीयं तु सम्यग्दृप्टेरतो हि न ।
पतितस्याप्यते बन्धो ग्रन्थिमुल्लङ्घ्य देशितः || २६६॥
bhinnagranthes tṛtiyam tu samyagdṛşler alo hi na 1. patitasya pyate bandho granthim ullanghya desitaḥ ||266||
The bhinnagranthi (i.e. one who has untied the knot) comes to acquire the third karana (viz. anivṛtti). It is on account of his having acquired this threefold karana that a Samyagdṛşti, even at the time of degeneration (i. e. at the time of the recrudescence of a false view of things), does not bring about in his soul as dangerous a karmic bordage as does one who has never crossed the knot.
एवं सामान्यतो ज्ञेयः परिणामोsस्य शोभनः । मिथ्यादृष्टेरपि सतो महावन्धविशेषतः ॥ २६७॥
exam samanyalo jñeyaḥ parināmo'sya sobhanaḥ | mithyadṛṣṭer api sato mahabandhaviseṣalaḥ ||267||
Since the karmic bondage brought about by a mithyadṛṣṭi who was formerly a Samyagdṛṣṭi is of a different type from the most dangerous possible such bondage we say that such a mithyadṛsti possesses mental make-up that is noble on the whole.
Note: A mithyadṛṣṭi is either one who has never attained Samyagdṛṣṭihood or one who has lost it. It is the former who brings about the most dangerous type of karmic bondage, and the latter is being praised because of his difference from the former on this count.
सागरोपमकोटीना कोट्यो मोहस्य सप्ततिः । अभिन्नग्रन्थिवन्वो यन्न त्वे कोsपीतरस्य तु ॥ २६८॥
sagaro pamakoṭinām kotyo mohasya saptatiḥ |
abhinnagranthibandho yan na to eko'pitarasya tu ||268||
For the man who has not untied the knot binds the mohaniyakarmas measuring seventy crore oceans multiplied by one crore, but the man who has untied the knot (even while reverting back to the status of a mithyadṛṣṭi) binds the mohaniyakarmas measuring not even one crore
oceans.
Note: In this verse we are informed about the precise quantitative difference between the mithyadṛṣṭi who has never attained Samyagdṛṣṭi. hood and one who has lost it. The comparison is made in terms of one's capacity to bind the mohaniyakarmas--the technical name for what are supposed to be the most evil types of karmas (there being eight types of karmas in all)--and the unit of measurement is "ocean" so meticulously described in the Jaina texts dealing with the problem.