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(vii) Steadfastness (viii) Purification (ix) Non-Action
(x) Realization In this order, one begins to know what is good or bad at Stage IV, and the path becomes clear for the discovery of new truths. Here, too, the practice of anupreksha proves most useful. In Uttaradhyana are mentioned five kinds of study, the fourth of which is anupreksha. Before it come, reading questioning, intelligent recounting. Only after anupreksha, comes discourse. Generally, every sadhak tends to assume the role of a religious speaker. However, according to a prominent tradition, only he has the right to discourse, who practises anupreksha. Through continual practice of anupreksha, one's comprehension of the essential meaning becomes so. sharp and clear that words grow secondary, and the cotemplator embodies all meaning in himself. From this angle, anupreksha or feeling becomes a solid basis for the evolution of a state of complete identification.
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