हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ 5 Yogin is now called brahmavidvara. Till now he goes about per- forming all the necessary duties of his own will. When he sees nothing but Brahman everywhere, that stage is called parārthā- bhāvinī, i.e. where the external things do not appear to exist. Here the Yogin performs his functions prompted by another. He is called brahmavariṣṭha when he has attained the seventh and last stage during which he neither performs his daily duties on his own or prompted by others, but remains in a state of perpetual Samādhi. The author of this work is said to have attained this stage as his name Svātmārāma shows. 4. Matsyendra, Gorakṣa and others knew well the Haṭha-vidyā. The Yogin Svātmārāma learnt it by their favour. 5-9. Śiva, Matsyendra, Śābara, Ānandabhairava, Cauraṅgī, Mīna, Gorakṣa, Virūpākṣa, Bileśaya, Man- thāna, Bhairava, Siddhi, Buddha, Kanthaḍi, Koraṇṭa- ka, Surānanda, Siddhapāda, Carpaṭi, Kāneri, Pūjya- pāda, Nityanātha, Nirañjana, Kapālin, Bindunātha, Kākacaṇḍīśvara, Allāma, Prabhudeva, Ghoḍācolin, Tiṇṭiṇi, Bhānukin, Nāradeva, Khaṇḍa, Kāpālika and many other great Siddha-s, having conquered time by the power of Haṭha-yoga move about the universe. 10. The Haṭha-yoga is a sheltering monastery for those scorched by all the [three] types of pain (tāpa). To those engaged in the practice of every kind of Yoga, Haṭha-yoga is like the tortoise that supports [the world]. The three types of pain are ādhyātmika, ādhidaivika and ādhi- bhautika. Ādhyātmika is of two kinds: bodily and mental; the ādhidaivika are those sufferings caused by planetary influences;