Austerity
“tapas”
idea · 2 works · 7 mentions · 19 anchored passages
austerity · tapas · fierce austerity · Tapas · vital power
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Ascetic practice whose power grants boons, sustains sacred sites, and characterizes both Kabandha's and Śabarī's devotion.
By fierce austerity I had gratified the Grandfather, and he granted me long life;
By the power of their austerities, behold even now, O best of the Raghus, that the altars illumine all directions with radiance of incomparable splendor.
When they, wearied by fasting and austerity and unable to travel, merely thought of them, behold — the seven oceans came together and arrived here.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ascetic heat/power sought through the girdle rite and embodied by the ecstatic munis.
Inasmuch as I am a student of sacred knowledge pursuing death — wresting beings, man and all, away for Yama — with Brahman, with austerity, with effort, with this girdle I bind him.
Intoxicated by the state of mauneya — the silent wisdom — we have mounted the winds.
Wandering in the pathway of the Gandharvas, the Apsarases, and the gods, the muni, knowing the intention of the wise, is a sweet and supremely ecstatic companion.