An English translation with sanskrit text of the Yogasara-sangraha / translated by Gangânâtha Jha.

  • Vijnanabhiksu
Date:
1894
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Credit: An English translation with sanskrit text of the Yogasara-sangraha / translated by Gangânâtha Jha. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wlieii drunk off by Agastya, can be explained on the ground of the removal of the Material Cause. The multiplication of bodies {Kayatyxiha) however is brought about by the congregation of the material causes, the different kinds of bodies. In reply to the question—During the process of body—multiplication, has the ascetic to produce, out of the material cause of the mind, a different Mind fitted to each kind of body, or does he direct (the operations of) all kinds of them, by his own single Mind ”—we have the decisive aphorism : “ The created Minds (proceed) soley from Egoism ” [ Yoga-- Sutra IV—4]. The meaning of this is this : Pure Egoism is Self—consciousness(A/<a;2Z:a?-a), and from this, by the mere will of the ascetic, proceed many Minds fitted to different bodies. If it were not so, it would not be possible to have, at the same time and through the same Mind, in different bodies, the contradictory elements of Experience (.B'/mf/a), Medi¬ tation and the like. That is to say, (in accoi’dance with the theory of the same Mind for all bodies), we could not explain the fact of the omniscient Vishnu having accepted ignorance through his own (onluiscieut Mind) at the time when be had the body of Rama and acted his part. And further we find in the Smritis the mention of contradictory actions by the same ascetics in different bodies: “One (body) enjoys objects, another performs austere penance. The Lord of Meditation develops as well as dissolves (many) bodies.” The creative Mind, however, is the only efficient cause of the action as well as tlie suppression of the created Minds; for says tlie Sutra: “In the diverse tendency of the many
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