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YOGADRSTISAMUCCAYA
If understanding be compared to the stream of water (coming out. of the lower strata of the carth) the desire to listen to doctrinal matters should be compared to the underground source of this water; bence it is that in tbe absence of such a desire one's listeniog to doctrival matters proves as futile as digging well at a place where happens to be no underground source of water.
श्रुताभावेऽपि भावेऽस्याः शुभभावप्रवृत्तितः । फलं कर्मक्षयाख्यं स्यात् परबोधनिबन्धनम् ॥५४॥ śrutābhāve'pi bhāve'syāḥ śubhabhāvaprav;ltitaḥ /
phalam karmakşayakhyaṁ syāt parabodhanibandhanam (154|| On the other hand, if the desire in question is present there in a man then even in case be listens to no scriptures he will, as a result of the continuous harbouring of auspicious thoughts, manage to attain the result called 'destruction of karmas' which on its part is generative of the understanding of a supreme type.
शुभयोगसमारम्भे न क्षेपोऽस्यां कदाचन । उपायकौशलं चापि चारु तद्विपयं भवेत् ।।५५।। śubhayogasamārambhe na kşepo'syāṁ kadacaria / upāyakaušalaṁ cāpi cāru tadvişayam bhavet ||55||
In this stage there never takes place a distraction after the yoga of an auspicious type has been opce begun; moreover; here one comes to know how to acquire the fire skill requisite for performing the same (i.e. yoga in question).
परिष्कारगतः प्रायो विघातोऽपि न विद्यते । अविघातश्च सावधपरिहारान्महोदयः ॥५६।। parişkāragataḥ prāyo vigliāto'pi na vidyate |
avighataś ca sāvadyapariharan mahodayaḥ 1/56|| Here there usually arise no obstacles pertaining to the instruments of performance; on its part, this absence of obstacles is conducive to moksa via an avoidance of the blameworthy acts, (d) Dipra--the Fourth Yoga-viewpoint
प्राणायामवती दीप्रा न योगोत्थानवत्यलम् । तत्त्वश्रवणसंयुक्ता सूक्ष्मबोधविवर्जिता ॥५७॥ prānāyāmavali dipra na yogotthānavaty alam tallvastaranasanyukta sūksmabodhavivarjita 1/571/
