हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

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meaning that only the ignorant consider Sāṁkhya
and Yoga to be different, not the enlightened. By
the practice of the one the results of both are obtained.
The goal attained by the followers of Sāṁkhya is
also reached by the Yogin. He that sees no difference
between Sāṁkhya and Yoga possesses the intuitive
power of knowledge.
The great sage, Vasiṣṭha, the Guru of Rāma-
candra, throws further light on the point in the Yoga-
vāsiṣṭha, in which, addressing his worthy disciple, he
says:
द्वौ क्रमौ चित्तनाशाय योगो ज्ञानं च राघव ।
योगो वृत्तिनिरोधो हि ज्ञानं सम्यगवेक्षणम् ॥
असाध्यः कस्यचिद्योगो ज्ञानं कस्यचिदेव च ।
प्रकारौ द्वौ ततः साक्षाज्जगाद परमः शिवः ॥
‘Oh Rāma! For the destruction (quiescence) of
mind only two ways are prescribed: Yoga and
jñāna (knowledge). Yoga is secured by suppressing
the working of the mind, and knowledge by right
vision, i.e. tracing the cause from the effect. To
some, Yoga is difficult, to others jñāna (knowledge) is
difficult. For this reason it is that the supreme Śiva
has revealed the two ways.’
Similar sentiments are breathed in the Kūrma-
purāṇa where in the chapters of the Īśvaragītā we read
that ‘the only certain means of acquiring this knowl-
edge is by an adherence to the Sāṁkhya and Yoga
doctrines, for they are the same; but he who sedulously