According to the Vyāsa-Bhāṣya, the yogin recognizes even pure discriminative knowledge as a property of Sattva, which is to be relinquished, and becomes dispassionate toward it. The burned seeds of the Kleśas return to their source together with the mind; with the reabsorption of the Guṇas, the threefold suffering ends and Puruṣa stands in complete separation in its own nature.
sthāny-upanimantraṇe saṅga-smayākaraṇaṃ punar aniṣṭa-prasaṅgāt ||51|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
The Vyāsa-Bhāṣya distinguishes four levels of yogins. To a yogin on the madhumatī level, the gods offer celestial realms, pleasures, companions, rejuvenating elixirs, a diamond-like body, and immortality. The yogin must reject these as new sources of craving and develop neither attachment nor pride, since heedlessness would allow the Kleśas to rise again.
Both upanimantraṇa and upamantraṇa denote an invitation or summons. PM2026 adopts the simpler formation without ni; the practical sense of the warning against celestial invitations remains almost unchanged. The variant is lexically real but not metrically decisive.
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