Tapas
“austerity”
idea · 3 works · 9 mentions · 20 anchored passages
tapas · austerity · austerities · penance · ascetic heat · asceticism · vrata
spoken of as
1 expressionPower of austerity“tapas”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
By her the great austerity of ten thousand years was practised, dear one, and through the vows of Anasūyā all obstacles were destroyed.
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Ascetic practice through which figures across the window obtain boons and divine favor.
For thirty-two thousand years that greatly glorious king, dwelling in the austerity-grove and rich in the wealth of penance, won heaven.
As he continued in that fierce austerity for thousands of years, the blessed Brahmā, the lord and master of all creatures, was greatly pleased.
Entrusting the kingdom to Dilīpa, O delight of the Raghu line, he performed extremely severe austerities on a beautiful peak of Himavat.
Rigveda
Ascetic heat/austerity treated as a power that grants heaven, generates offspring, and gives rise to cosmic order itself.
Those who by austerity are invincible, those who by austerity have gone to heaven, those who have made great austerity — to them verily may this one go.
I saw you with the mind, wide-awake, born of tapas, manifested through tapas;
From blazing tapas, cosmic order (ṛta) and truth (satya) were born;
Manusmṛti
Ascetic heat or austerity, both a creative power used by the deity and Manu, and the highest form of Dharma in the Krita age.
Then I, desiring to create progeny, performed the most difficult *tapas* and created at the beginning ten great sages, the lords of progeny.
He created *tapas* (ascetic heat), speech, and pleasure, and also desire and anger;
Know me, O best of the twice-born, to be that Male, Viraj, whom he himself created after performing *tapas*, the creator of this entire universe.