Shloka 40
Adhyaya 76 — The Sixth Manvantara: Cakshusha Manu, the Child-Snatcher, and the Problem of Kinship
सोऽप्यानन्दस्तपस्तेपे बाल एव महावने ।
कर्मणां क्षुपणार्थाय विमुक्तेः परिपन्थिनाम् ॥
so 'pyānandastapastepe bāla eva mahāvane / karmaṇāṃ kṣupaṇārthāya vimukteḥ paripanthinām
“Ānanda itu juga, ketika masih kanak-kanak, melakukan tapa di rimba besar, untuk mengikis karma—yang menjadi halangan di jalan menuju mokṣa (pembebasan).”
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FAQs
Austerity is presented as a disciplined means to reduce karmic impediments to freedom. The emphasis on ‘even as a boy’ underscores that sincere spiritual striving is not bound to age or status.
Ascetic-dharma teaching within narrative; not a pañcalakṣaṇa cosmological/genealogical unit.
‘Forest’ signifies withdrawal from sense-fields; ‘karmas as paripanthins’ frames liberation as a path where latent impressions must be burned by tapas (inner heat).