Tapas:

Tapas means devoting oneself single mindedly to spiritual practice and it is often translated as spiritual austerity or penance. When Shri Swamiji uses the term tapas, he usually refers to meditation in samadhi for at least twelve hours every day. He explains that such tapas is necessary if one wishes to attain God realization.

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TAPAS: Austerity.

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tapas

Lit., “heat.” Austerity, or trouble undertaken voluntarily for a higher purpose.

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tapas:

tapas - austerity, purification

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Tapas (Tapoloka)

The planet of renounced sages, above Svarga, Jana, and Mahar, where exalted persons such as the four Kumaras reside.

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Tapas:

Tapas: purificatory action; ascetic  self-denial; austerity; penance; mortification.

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tapas:

tapas (thapas). Concentrated spiritual exercises to attain God, penance, severe austerities.

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Tapas:

Tapas ("glow/heat"): austerity, penance, which is an ingredient of all yogic approaches, since they all involve self-transcendence

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TAPAS: penance

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Tapas: is the practice of conserving energy and directing it toward the goal of yoga, toward union with the atman.

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Tapas: Sacred heat generated by certain physical or spiritual practices; ritual self-purification.

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Tapas:

Tapas. "Asceticism". "Heat". A psychic glow as a result of arousing and controlling the psychosexual energy of the body.

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tapas: to shine, blaze or converge inner heat. Austerities on the physical level include yoga postures; on the mental level, consistent concentration; on the intellectual level, applying the concentration and thought to a divine ideal.

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Tapas:  self discipline

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TAPA: burning

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Tapas (Sanskrit). "Abstraction", "meditation". "To perform tapas" is to sit for contemplation. Therefore ascetics are often called Tapasas.

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Tapas (Sanskrit) Warmth, fire, heat; abstraction, meditation. To perform tapas is to sit for contemplation or undergo some special observance. Occultly the inner fire or spiritual flame aroused by intense abstraction of thought or meditation.

The Laws of Manu says tapas with the Brahmins is sacred learning; with the Kshatriyas, protection of subjects; with the Vaisyas, giving alms to Brahmins; with the Sudras, service.

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tapas (taapas): The purifying "heat" of meditative practice.

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Tapas (tapasya): Austerity, practical (i.e., result-producing) spiritual discipline; spiritual force. Literally it means the generation of heat or energy, but is always used in a symbolic manner, referring to spiritual practice and its effect, especially the roasting of karmic seeds, the burning up of karma.

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tapas: (Sanskrit) "Warmth, heat," hence psychic energy, spiritual fervor or ardor.

1)    Purificatory spiritual disciplines, severe austerity, penance and sacrifice. The endurance of pain, suffering, through the performance of extreme penance, religious austerity and mortification. By comparison, sadhana is austerity of a simple, sustained kind, while tapas is austerity of a severe, psychetransforming nature. Tapas is extreme bodily mortification, long term sadhanas, such as meditating under a tree in one place for 12 years, taking a lifetime vow of silence and never speaking or writing, or standing on one leg for a prescribed number of years. Scriptures warn against extreme asceticism that harm the body.

2)    On a deeper level, tapas is the intense inner state of kundalini "fire" which stimulates mental anguish and separates the individual from society. Life does not go on as usual when this condition occurs. The association with a satguru, Sadasiva, brings the devotee into tapas; and it brings him out of it. The fire of tapas burns on the dross of sanchita karmas. This is the source of heat, dismay, depression and striving until final and total surrender, prapatti. The individual can mollify this heated condition by continuing his regular sadhana as outlined by the guru. The fires of self-transformation may be stimulated by the practice of tapas, or come unbidden. One can "do" tapas, but the true tapas is a condition of being and consciousness which is a state of grace, bringing positive change, transformation and purification of one's nature. Guru bhakti is the only force that can cool the fires of tapas.

See: kundalini, penance, sadhana.

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