Yoga as philosophy and religionDasgupta, Surendranath
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Yoga as philosophy and religion
Dasgupta, Surendranath
Hindu philosophy; Patañjali; Yoga
See _Vyāsa-bhāshya_ on Patañjali’s _Yoga-sūtras_, II. 18, and
Vācaspati’s _Tattvavaiśāradī_ on it.
Footnote 6:
See Bhikshu’s _Yoga-vārttika_, II. 18.
Footnote 7:
_History of Hindu Chemistry_, Vol. II, by P. C. Ray, p. 66.
Footnote 8:
The usual Sāṃkhya terms as found in Iśvarakṛshṇa’s _Kārikā_, having
the same denotation as aviśesha and viśesha, are _prakṛtivikṛti_ and
_vikṛti_.
Footnote 9:
_Vyāsa-bhāshya_, II. 19.
Footnote 10:
_Vyāsa-bhāshya_, II. 19.
Footnote 11:
_Tattvavaiśāradī_, II. 19.
Footnote 12:
_Tattvatraya_, p. 48 (Chowkhamba edition), Benares.
Footnote 13:
Bhikshu in his _Yoga-vārttika_ explains “_māyeva_” as “_laukikamāyeva
kshaṇabhaṇguram_” evanescent like the illusions of worldly experience.
Footnote 14:
_Siddhāntalleśa_ (Jīveśvara nirūpaiṇa).
Footnote 15:
Princess Kuntī of the Mahābhārata had a son born to her by means of a
charm when she was still a virgin. Being afraid of a public scandal
she floated the child in a stream; the child was picked up by the wife
of a carpenter (Rādhā). The boy grew up to be the great hero Karṇa and
he thought that he was the son of a carpenter until the fact of his
royal lineage was disclosed to him later in life.
Footnote 16:
_Kārikā_ 17.
Footnote 17:
Gauḍapāda’s commentary on _Kārikā_ 17.
Footnote 18:
Purusha is a substance (_dravya_) because it has independent existence
(_anāśrita_) and has a measure (_vibhu parimāṇa_) of its own. So it
always possesses the common characteristics (_sāmānya guṇa_) of
substances, contact (_saṃyoga_), separation (_viyoga_) and number
(_saṃkhyā_). Purusha cannot be considered to be suffering change or
impure on account of the possession of the above common
characteristics of all substances. _Yoga-vārttika_, II. 17.
Footnote 19:
Thus the _Bhāshya_ says:
_bhavishyadvyaktikamanāgataṃanudbhūtavyaktikamatītaṃ
svavyāpāropārūḍhaṃ varttamānaṃ trayaṃ, caitadvastu jñānasya jñeyaṃ
yadi caitat svarūpato nābhavishyannedaṃ nirvishayaṃ jñānamudapatsyata
tasmādatītamanāgataṃ svarūpato’ stīti_.
Footnote 20:
_Tattvavaiśāradī_, IV. 14.
Footnote 21:
_Vastusāmye cittabhedāt tayor vibhaktaḥ panthāḥ._ _Yoga-sūtra_, IV.
15.
Footnote 22:
“_Tattvāntara-pariṇāma_” means the evolution of a wholly new category
of existence. Thus the tanmātras are wholly different from the ego
from which they are produced. So the atoms are wholly different from
the tanmātras from which they are produced, for the latter, unlike the
former, have no sense-properties. In all combinations of atoms, there
would arise thousands of new qualities, but none of the products of
the combination of atoms can be called a tattvāntara, or a new
category of existence since all these qualities are the direct
manifestations of the specific properties of the atoms.
Footnote 23:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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