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Bhāskara's list. Really speaking, ūsana occurring in Patañjali's list is no spiritual qualification but a sheer physical capacity ; to evade. this
is suggested that asana here should not be taken to mean the physical act of adopting different sitting postures but the spiritual qualification called 'getting seated in one's own nature' (i.e. caring only for such things as are in one's true self-interest).
नास्यां सत्यामसत्तृष्णा प्रकृत्यैव प्रवर्तते । तदभवाच्च सर्वत्र स्थितमेव सुखासनम् ॥५०॥ nāsyāṁ saiyām asaltrsņā prakstyaiva pravarlate / tadabhāvāc ca sarvatra sthitam eva sukhāsanam ||50||
___ In this stage a thirst for things non-existing (ive. for things concocted out of delusion) vanishes automatically and in the absence of such a thirst comfortable sitting postures easily become feasible every where.
अत्वरापर्वकं सर्व गमनं कृत्यमेव वा । प्रणिधानसमायुक्तमपायपरिहारतः ॥५१॥
atvarā pūrvakaṁ sarvam gamanan krtyam eva vā / praạidhānasamāyuktam apāya parihārataḥ 115111
Here all movement and all other activity (i.e. movements and activities relating to religious performances) are undertaken without haste and with full attentiveness, and that in its turn happens because the possible disturbance (i.e. a possible wavering of mind) is here eliminated in advance.
कान्तकान्तासमेतस्य दिव्यगेयश्रुतौ यथा । यूनो भवति शुश्रूषा तथाऽस्यां तत्त्वगोचरा ॥५२॥ kāntakāntāsametasya divyageyaśrutau yatha |
Jyāno bhavati susrāsa tatha'syām tattvagocard ||52|| Here the desire to listen to doctrinal matters is of the same (intensel variety as is the desire to listen to divine songs in a young man who is ia company with his beautiful beloved.
बोधाम्भःस्रोतसश्चैषा सिरातुल्या सतां मता । अभावेऽस्याः श्रुतं व्यर्थमसिरावनिपकूपवत् ॥५३॥ bodhambhahsrotasas caisā sirātulyā satām malā abhāve’syāḥ śrutam vartham asirāvanikūpavat 1153|||
