Upaniṣads · Yogakuṇḍalinī 1.60
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Devanāgarī
षष्ठं तु विरतिर्भ्रान्तिः सप्तमं परिकीर्तितम् । विषमं चाष्टमं चैव अनाख्यं नवमं स्मृतम्
Transliteración (IAST)
ṣaṣṭhaṃ tu viratirbhrāntiḥ saptamaṃ parikīrtitam | viṣamaṃ cāṣṭamaṃ caiva anākhyaṃ navamaṃ smṛtam
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षष्ठं तु विरतिः भ्रान्तिःṣaṣṭhaṃ tu viratiḥ bhrāntiḥthe sixth, however, is aversion, delusion
सप्तमं परिकीर्तितम्saptamaṃ parikīrtitamis proclaimed the seventh
विषमं च अष्टमं च एवviṣamaṃ ca aṣṭamaṃ ca evaand unevenness the eighth, and indeed
अनाख्यं नवमं स्मृतम्anākhyaṃ navamaṃ smṛtamthe nameless is remembered as ninth
Traducción
"The sixth, however, is aversion; delusion is proclaimed the seventh; and the eighth is unevenness; the ninth is remembered as the nameless".
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Four more hindrances, and two of them deserve unpacking. Virati, "aversion, cooling," is the sixth. The word means "cessation of attraction"; and it denotes that state in which a man has not abandoned the thing, but has stopped wanting it.
This state, in spiritual labor, is known to all and is, by common testimony, the most dangerous. An open refusal is visible and so correctable; a cooling is unnoticeable: the man goes on doing exactly the same things, and all of them have stopped meaning anything to him. Anakhya, "the nameless," is the ninth, and it is remarkable for having no name.
The author, in enumerating, arrived at a state he knows but cannot name — and honestly placed it in the list without a name, rather than inventing a word. This honesty is rare and deserves praise. Anyone who has worked at something for long knows there are stretches of which one cannot say whether it is laziness, or doubt, or fatigue; there is nothing to call them, yet they exist.
The Vaishnava side describes such states too and refers them to what she calls anartha, "the unneeded, the harmful" — a general name for everything that hinders and cannot be named more precisely. A general name here is more honest than false precision; and the book that left the ninth hindrance nameless did the same.