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  विपाक   –   vipāka About Śabdayoga Blog author Jayaraman Mahadevan Support Shabda Yoga  Help us develop and maintain a dedicated website for preserving and sharing this knowledge.  To  make a voluntary contribution -  write to mantrartha@gmail.com       Vipāka is a technical term of the Yogasūtra . Unlike karma , it is seldom used in everyday Yoga discourse. Readers more often meet it in Āyurveda, where it names the effect of a substance after digestion, and in Jaina and Bauddha writing, where, as in Yoga, it names karma come to fruition. Patañjali uses it only three times, once in each of three pāda s, and each time it names the ripening of karma into its result. It is not found in the Bhagavadgītā or the Haṭhayogapradīpikā . As with the other entries in this series, the word is examined in the Yogasūtra with the Vyāsa-bhāṣya , and checked against the Bhagavadgītā and the Haṭhayogapradīpikā , which together give a cros...