THE SADANGA YOGA

"autogenous" and is "born from the ether" since the mind is free from all
conceptual constructions .. Here, the "great fire of wisdom and knowledge"
is the apparition of the flame. The "great solar light" is the apparition of
the moon. This is precisely "a shining brightness of knowledge". "The
lamp of the world" is the apparition of the sun. The "torch of knowledge"
is the apparition of Rahu. "The great brightening splendour" is the
apparition of lightning. "The king of the vidyiis, who is the most excellent
Lord of the mantras", is the apparition of the bindu, the aspect of which is
a blue-coloured lunar wheel. "The king of the mantras, the author of the
great goal", is the apparition of the [various] realities (endowed with all
forms) of the three worlds. The yogin sees this apparition as being similar
to maya, to a dream, or to a magical image. [He sees this apparition at first]
because of the withdrawal, namely, through the instrument of the senses,
such as the [divine] eye, and then because of the bond, namely, restraint of
the breath. [It is said:] Once these, viz.,
Once the instruments have been arrested l51 , [the yogin] will attain the
three worlds characterized by desire, fOlm and non-form [respectively] and
composed of ail realities, both movable and unmovable.
Thus the Blessed One said in the piildnivajrapaiijara:
The entire universe (with its movable and inimovable entities) attains
realization as far as the number of adamantine creatures is concerned in ail
the worlds.
[This] happens thanks to the meditation of the sixfold yoga. This is the
Blessed One's rule. In the glorious Samaja, the Blessed One said:
[The meditation that is performed] in non-being is the non-being of
meditation: the meditation is precisely a non-meditation. The being is a
non-being: the meditation is not perceived [GS 11, 3]152.
The meditation that is performed here, "in non-being", i.e., in a cloudless
sky, is'the withdrawal. This [withdrawal that is performed] "in non-being
is" precisely "the non-being of the meditation". Thus, "the meditation is
151 GBh: "That is, they become the divine eyes, and so forth [ ... ]".
152 Cf. Bhattacharya (in GS, p. xx, 1931: 8); Tucci 1935: 347-8 (reprint in 1971: 348);
Snellgrove i959 vol. I: 77; Wayman 1977. Cf. also GSPU (ed., pp. 31-2). This verse is
often quoted; cf., for instance, VP, comm. on LKC IV, 5 (ed., vol. II, p. 153), AP (NAK,
MS 5-21, NGMPP, Mf. A 48/2, fol. 24b3), SrIkiilacakrabhagavatsiidhanavidhi (ed., p. 161)
and HTPT (MS IsIAO, not catalogued, fol. 30a).
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