Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.27

Language: English

c16.27

**Sadānanda.** To Sadānanda we owe the interesting addition in his *Vedāntasāra* that students of Vedānta must guard against four obstacles to meditation, viz. (1) *Laya*, mental inertia or laziness of mind, (2) *Vikshepa*, distraction, turning of mind on things other than Truth, (3) *Kashāya*, passion which impedes the proper functioning of mind by kindling lust or other desires, and (4) *Rasāsvāda*, "tendency towards emotive enjoyments."

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