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supplements the discipline of meditation; and it is one of the forms of the study of the sucred lore. Its twofold connotation, noted above, depends oL its association with Meditation or Study.
d) Tabir Purpose and Soore The object of Anuprekşi and its effect on the soul aspiring after liberation are explained at length in the Uuaradhyayaux-nitra (XXIX. 22):
By pondering on what he has learned ] he loosens the firm hold which the seven kinds of Karman, except the õrnuşkus (have upon the soul ); he shortens their duration when it was to be a longer one; he mitigates their power when it was intense; (he reduces their sphere of action when it WAS A wide one ); be may acquire Ayaşka-Karmen or not, but he no more accumulates Karidan which produces unpleasant feelings, and ho quickly crosses the very large of the fourfold Sansira which is without beginning and end,' The ultimate objective of Acuprekşā-contemplation is the stoppage ( 8mvara) of the influx of and the shedding of Kurmun / nirjari). As interwediary steps many a virtue is developed by the soul by contemplating on one or the other Cuprekci.
The topics of Anuprekşi serve 19 putent fuctors leading to spiritual progress. When one is impressed by the transient nature of worldly objects and relations, one directe one's attention from the outward to the inward: the attachment for the world is reduced giving place to liking for religious life which alone can save the soul from Sansira and lead it on to liberation. By this contemplation the relation of the self with the universe is fully understood: the mind becomes puro and equanimous; attaobment and aversion are subjugated; renunciation rules supreme; aud in pure meditation the Atman is realized,
The scope of the religious topics covered hy twelve Anuprekşās is pretty wide. When the worldly objects ure realized to be transitory and relations temporary, there develops that philosophical yearning ter solve the problem of life and death, the individual, often under the pressure of liis pre-dispositions, thinks, talks and acts, und thus incurs i fud of Karms the consequences of which he cannot escape. Being the architect of his own fortune, he can never escape liis Karras witbout experiencing their fr The soul boing in the company of Kurnias from beginningless time, the transmigratory struggle is going on since long; and it is high time for tlie self to realise itself as completely different from its 38ociates, both subtle and grogs. To realise the potential effulgence of the self, one has to under
| SR No. | 090248 |
| Book Title | Kartikeyanupreksha |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Kumar Swami |
| Publisher | Paramshrut Prabhavak Mandal |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 589 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari & Religion |
| File Size | 19 MB |