उपनिषद् · Yogakuṇḍalinī 2.5
॥
देवनागरी
अभ्यासं मेलनं चैव युगपन्नैव सिध्यति । अभ्यासमात्रनिरता न विन्दन्ते ह मेलनम्
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
abhyāsaṃ melanaṃ caiva yugapannaiva sidhyati | abhyāsamātraniratā na vindante ha melanam
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
अभ्यासं मेलनं च एवabhyāsaṃ melanaṃ ca evapractice and meeting
युगपत् न एव सिध्यतिyugapat na eva sidhyatiat once, indeed, do not succeed
अभ्यास-मात्र-निरताःabhyāsa-mātra-niratāḥthose devoted to practice alone
न विन्दन्ते ह मेलनम्na vindante ha melanamdo not attain, indeed, the meeting
अनुवाद
"Practice and meeting do not succeed at once; those devoted to practice alone do not attain the meeting".
संस्करण
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उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
Here is the position for whose sake this whole chapter is worth reading, and it is unexpected in a book on yoga: abhyasa-matra-niratah na vindante ha melanam — "those devoted to practice alone do not attain the meeting." Let us take the words apart. Abhyasa — "practice, habit," discussed when reading the eighth line of the first chapter. Melana — "meeting, union," from mil, "to come together"; discussed when reading the sixty-fifth line.
And it is said: practice alone is not enough. This position, in a book that spent eighty-six verses expounding practices, is, in essence, an admission of the limit of its own method. However much one repeats, there will be no meeting — it is not produced by repetition.
The Vaishnava side says the very same thing, in almost the same words, and this is one of her central positions. Service according to rules — vaidhi — brings a man into order, but does not give taste; taste is given, and not for length of service. The Bhagavatam says: "He is not attained by reasoning, nor by intellect, nor by much hearing; he whom He chooses, to him alone is He revealed" (Kathaka 1.2.23, repeated in Mundaka 3.2.3).
This coincidence deserves special note. A book about bodily techniques, reaching the substance of the matter, has said: practice will not do it, a meeting is needed; and the following lines will explain where a meeting comes from.