The Complete Commentary by Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtra-s by Trevor Leggett

The Complete Commentary by Śaṅkara on the Yoga Sūtra-s by Trevor Leggett

Author:Trevor Leggett [Leggett, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kegan Paul International
Published: 2017-06-28T06:00:00+00:00


Made to converge on a birth and death on a birth-and-death a stock of karma good and bad, the qualification ‘which can be compatible as the cause of the circumstances of the new birth’ is to be supplied; those which would be incompatible with the circumstances of the birth are to be felt in a future birth and their fruition is not yet determined. He will speak later about the three-fold distribution (viniyoga); here he is only speaking of the determination of a karma-stock of good and bad in so far as their fruits are not inconsistent with each other.

accumulated variety: it is so varied because it is a piling up of many karma-s of similar and dissimilar kind; in relations of dominance and subordination, one karma is dominant over another, but itself subordinate to yet another, so that though subordinate it is also dominant – in this way many karma-s are in relations of many different kinds.

manifested by death: as the conjunction of seed and field and potential (saṃskāra) is the cause of the manifestation of the being of the sprout, so is death the impelling cause of the manifestation of those karma-s which are not incompatible. And by one impulse becoming one single impetus as a block unified it makes a single birth. That birth has its life span by that karma alone which was manifested at the death; in that life span comes experience by that karma alone by which were created the birth and span of life. As by that same seed from which the sprout was sent forth, there come also the fruit and flowers and the rest.

It is declared that experience and life span come into operation by that karma alone, but it is not that no other cause of life span and experience and so on operates as to getting a son who will live, and the other objects of sacrifice for sons or cattle and other desires. Otherwise all scriptures and traditions would be vitiated. So when it is said by that karma alone, the point is only to remove any suspicion that having originated the birth, it might have had its effect and so cease.

This block of karma, as causing birth, life span, and experience, is declared to have three-fold fruition, and for this reason is called a one-life karma-block. But karma which produces a single result as an experience to be felt in the present life is called of single fruition; or if two results, namely experience and life span, it is of double fruition; or if with three results, it is as with Nandīśvara and Nahuṣa.



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