vipāka
Root: pac Devanāgarī: विपाक Translation: results; effect, result, consequence; ripening, maturing; digestion; conversion of food into a state for assimilation Similar words:phala Related concepts:kleśa, karman, āśaya, paripākaAppears in
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Commentaries around
“Even though Yoga talks about the possibility of
a state of being expressing motiveless action,
for the rest of us there is always an ulterior motive.
The issue is what it truly is, rather than just whether it
had what we believed as a white, grey or black intention.
Also, whether this intention is what we wanted to believe,
or is there another truth lurking within our sense of right?
Thus, the outcome may well differ from what we believed.
However, as many of our motives fall within the grey spectrum,
a deeper introspection into the reality of intention is important.
To at least minimise Viparyaya, existing as a flight of fancy, or
posing as if a truth convincing in its rightness to exist, when in
reality, merely an opinion, even if not its deeper partner Avidyā.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 7
“Thus we can only know Avidyā through
īśvara Praṇidhānā by action and its results.”
– TKV Desikachar France 1983
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