Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya by Haribhadra Sūri
Chapter 5 – A Line of Demarcation between the first four and last four Yogadṛṣṭis [39 of 121]
Chapter 5.3 – Bhavābhinandī Jīva (A Rejoicer of worldly existence) [21 of 26]
Behavioural traits of an enjoyer of worldly existence [8 of 10]
Haribhadrasūri compares worldly crave of a rejoicer of worldly existence with a person who scratches his itching limbs. Due to intense delusion, he has high regard for the transmigration. Therefore, he does not perceive the insignificant, disdaining as well as tormenting worldly existence worth disliking or disgusting. The worldly existence is such due to the contingencies like birth, death, old age, chronic diseases, temporary ailments to body, mental anguish caused by separation from dear ones etc.[1] Our author presents an example which compares the mind set of an individual who suffers from scab with the worldly inclination of the subject in question. A scab–sufferer, even though painful, enjoys itching limbs. Just like it the subject in question, though suffers from transmigration, is not ready to get rid of the very desire for obtaining worldly enjoyments.[2] The example is as following:
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[1] janmamṛtyujarāvyādhi– rogaśokādyupadrutam |
vīkṣamāṇā api bhavaṃ, nodvijante'timohataḥ ||79||
janma–prādurbhāvalakṣaṇaṃ, mṛtyuḥ–prāṇatyāgarupaḥ jarā–vayohānyātmikā, vyādhiḥ–kuṣṭhādilakṣaṇaḥ, rogo– viśucikādyātaṅkaḥ, śoka–kaṣṭaviyogādijomanovikāraḥ,...... ||79||
–Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya and its auto–commentary.
[2] yathā kaṇḍūyaneṣveṣāṃ, dhīrna kacchūnivarttane |
bhogāṅgeṣu tathaiteṣāṃ, na tadicchaparikṣaye ||81||
akṣāragamanikā tu–yathā kaṇḍūyaneṣu – tṛṣṇoṣveṣāṃ–kacchūkaṇḍūyakānāṃ dhīrbuddhistattvānabhijñatayā, na kacchūnivartane duḥkhānubhavavikārabhāvāt | bhogāṅgeṣu–stryādiṣu tathaiteṣām — avedyasaṃvedyapadavatāṃ bhavābhinandināṃ dhīrna tadicchaparikṣaye — na bhogocchanivṛttau tattvānabhijñatayaiva, vayaḥ paripāke'pi vājīkaraṇādarāt | kacchagrahaṇamiha bhogakriyopalakṣaṇam ||81|
– |Yogadṛṣṭisamuccaya and its auto–commentary