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The Ability of Curse and Favour

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The Ability of Curse and Favour

The ability of curse and favour, the ability to help or harm another simply via intent, is noted as a Connection Outcome in the Yoga Sastra of Hemacandra[1]

Syncretic Terms

List of Connection Outcomes

Notes

"The fortune of the blossoming flowers of the [fabulous] wishing tree of yoga consists of [supernatural attainments (labdhi), such as] walking in the air (caarana), the ability of curse and favour (asivisa), extra-ordinary perception (avadhi), and mind-reading (manahparyaya)."[2]


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Footnotes

  1. Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth-Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 9
  2. Quarnstrom, Olle, trans. The YogaSastra of Hemacandra: A Twelfth Century Handbook on Svetambara Jainism. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2002. p. 21.