... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 3 VII The Spirit Of Tapasya TAPASYA (Asceticism) is usually understood to mean the capacity to undergo physical discomfort and suffering. We are familiar with various types of Tapasya: sitting in summer with blazing fire all around and the fiery noondaysun overhead (Panchagnivrata), exposing one's bare... hiding, in secretly preserving one's unsaintliness behind a smokescreen of the utmost physical tapasya. Real Tapasya, however, is not in relation to the body and its comforts and discomforts; it is in relation to the inner being) the consciousness and its directives and movements. Tapasya, austerity, consists in reacting to the downward pull of the ordinary consciousness, turning... labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a test of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed, Tapas, the word from which tapasya is derived, means energy of consciousness, and Tapasya is the exercise, the utilisation of that energy for the ascent and expansion of the consciousness. It is this inner athleticism that is the thing needful, not its vain ...
... Tapasya A discipline imposed by the will for any spiritual end is tapasya. 1 Tapasya: a discipline aiming at the realisation of the Divine. Mental tapasya: the process leading to the goal. Vital tapasya: the vital undergoes a rigorous discipline in order to transform itself. Integral tapasya: the whole being lives only to know... know and serve the Divine. Perfect tapasya: that which will reach its goal. Page 45 No life can be successful without self-discipline. To be a man, discipline is indispensable. Without discipline one is only an animal. One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer life and when one accepts a discipline of transformation. For this one must start ...
... Evolution and the Earthly Destiny The Spirit of Tapasya TAPASYA (Asceticism) is usually understood to mean the capacity to undergo physical discomfort and suffering. We are familiar with various types of Tapasya: sitting in summer with blazing fire all around and the fiery noonday sun over- head (Panchagnivrata), exposing one's bare limbs to the cold biting... succeeds in hiding, in secretly preserving one's unsaintliness behind a smoke-screen of the utmost physical tapasya. Real Tapasya, however, is not in relation to the body and its comforts and discomforts; it is in relation to the inner being, the consciousness and its directives and movements. Tapasya, austerity, consists in reacting to the downward pull of the ordinary consciousness, turning and attuning... and labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a test of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed, Tapas, the word from which tapasya is derived, means energy of consciousness, and Tapasya is the exercise, the utilisation of that energy for the ascent and expansion of the consciousness. It is this inner athleticism that is the thing needful, not its vain physical ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Spirit of Tapasya TAPASYA (Asceticism) is usually understood to mean the capacity to undergo physical discomfort and suffering. We are familiar with various types of Tapasya: sitting in summer with blazing fire all around and the fiery noonday sun overhead (Panchagnivrata), exposing one's bare limbs... succeeds in hiding, in secretly preserving one's unsaintliness behind a smoke-screen of the utmost physical tapasya. Real Tapasya, however, is not in relation to the body and its comforts and discomforts; it is in relation to the inner being, the consciousness and its directives and movements. Tapasya, austerity, consists in reacting to the downward pull of the ordinary consciousness, turning and attuning... and labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a test of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed, Tapas, the word from which tapasya is derived, means energy of consciousness, and Tapasya is the exercise, the utilisation of that energy for the ascent and expansion of the consciousness. It is this inner athleticism that is the thing needful, not its vain physical ...
... spontaneous peace and concentration are lacking, any effort on my part to concentrate turns into a kind of tapasya. Various suggestions are coming to divert me from this effort, saying that this attitude of tapasya is not as effective as an effortless state. But it seems to me that this effort, this tapasya is necessary so long as the outer nature is not purified. Please give me some direction. Both are ...
... Lord of Tapas, did Parvati resolve to undertake a great tapasya. The word tapasya so significantly derived from the root tap, to heat, is sometimes wrongly translated as "penance". But as Sri Aurobindo says, it implies "a fierce and strong effort of all the human powers towards any given end", the end being, in this case, Shiva's love. Tapasya means a tremendous concentration of the will "which sets... Parvati's Tapasya Uma - Abaninidranath Tagore Parvati's Tapasya Introduction Her aim was nothing less than to win the heart of the supreme ascetic, silent and motionless in his abode of ice and snow. The great Shiva clothed in ashes, whom neither desire nor grief can touch, whose meditation is like Infinity contemplating Infinity, by whom worlds... one level) is an image of man's condition in the world. Striving to realise our own perfection, we have no other choice than to move, to act — and tapasya, giving Page 13 and sacrifice, are the means of our action. Parvati's tapasya and its achievement are described by Kalidasa in the fifth canto of his great epic poem Kumarasambhava , the Birth of the War God, which many critics ...
... Champaklal also doesn't believe in Tapasya. CHAMPAKLAL: By that I don't mean one must indulge in the lower nature. But otherwise I don't believe in Tapasya—it's true. SRI AUROBINDO: But when one wants something, one has to concentrate one's energies on a particular point. NIRODBARAN: That, of course; but is that the sense of the word Tapasya? By "Tapasya" we mean something done against one's... NIRODBARAN: Krishnaprem makes a distinction between power, which is the reward of Tapasya, and Grace, which is the reward of receptiveness. Does it mean that only receptive persons get Grace? SRI AUROBINDO: How can you have Grace without receptiveness? Even if there is Tapasya, the result doesn't depend on Tapasya. As they say, only the Grace of Brahman can give the result. PURANI: The Upanishad... predominant and outweigh the other. NIRODBARAN: I somehow don't like the clear-cut distinction made by him. He says that the flow of the power comes to make Tapasya. But that itself is due to the receptivity of the one who does the Tapasya and consequently due to Grace. SRI AUROBINDO: No, it is not the whole truth; it contains only an element. The truth is infinite, and Krishnaprem states one ...
... Ramkrishna. Disciple : That means, if one has that living faith he can do without Tapasya. C also says that he does not believe in Tapasya. He believes in Grace. Disciple : I do not mean that one should indulge in lower nature while depending or believing in Grace. But otherwise I don't believe in Tapasya. Disciple : Yes, but if we want something then we have to make some effort or... Aurobindo : That is his idea that it should be so. Disciple : Perhaps he means that in an ideal case these two should be equal. Disciple : Krishna Prem also says that Grace and Tapasya are complimentary. No one of them is to be stressed. Girish Ghosh used to say to Ramkrishna that he left everything for Ramkrishna to do (for him); and it seems he was very much changed. Page... or straining for that thing. Some effort is inevitable. Sri Aurobindo : (to C) What do you mean by Tapasya? Disciple : It has the sense of effort. For example, the mind is wandering about : then one has to make an effort to concentrate it. This is difficult. Sri Aurobindo : That Tapas means something difficult is the popular idea. It means most often sitting on nails, standing ...
... something so that he may not be able to speak. Sri Aurobindo : That is what is called Asuric Tapasya : Titanic askasis. Disciple : Can one gain something by Asuric Tapasya? Sri Aurobindo : Yes; all Tapasya can give you something. Physical and vital tapasya can give you something. It can give you physical and vital control, though that is more a Nigraha – repressed ...
... This present monograph is entitled Parvati's Tapasya. It presents an episode of the life of the goddess as recounted by Kalidasa in his epic Kumarasambhava. The great poet describes one of the greatest instruments used by ancient Indian seekers in their quest, the method of tapasya, here undertaken by Parvati herself for the sake of love. Tapasya can be said to include three stages. Firstly,... Parvati's Tapasya Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Preface The task of preparing teaching-learning material for value- oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea that value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and that the teaching- learning material should provide to the learners a growing experience of ...
... desires always spoil everything. What does "inner tapasya" mean, exactly? Page 409 Inner tapasya? It means the tapasya for the character, and for changing the psychological movements of the being, precisely to conquer the desires, conquer the passions, overcome egoism, get rid of fears. This is the inner tapasya. Outer tapasya is all the ascetic or hathayogic methods; to make use... use of physical means for one's yoga is an outer tapasya But inner tapasya consists of attending to one's character and trying to change it. Sweet Mother, what is the difference between willing and desiring? They are not at all the same thing. When you see that something ought to be done, for instance, that it is good to do it—take your reason: say your reason decides that this ought to be done—then ...
... because of it are those who accept the idea but do not realise—so they have neither the force of tapasya nor that of the Divine Grace. On the other hand those who can realise it feel even behind their tapasya and in it the action of the Divine Force. Surrender and Tapasya Yoga is an endeavour, a tapasya—it can cease to be so only when one surrenders sincerely to a higher Action and keeps the surrender... and help may be felt from time to time, but it remains mostly behind the veil till all is ready. In some sadhanas the Divine action is not recognised; all must be done by tapasya. In most there is a mixing of the two, the tapasya finally calling the direct help and intervention. The idea and experience of the Divine doing all belongs to the Yogas based on surrender. But whatever way is followed... energy are concentrated and used to control the mind, vital and physical and change them or to bring down the higher consciousness or for any other Yogic purpose or high purpose, that is called Tapasya. Tapasya has predominated in your sadhana, for you have a fervour and active energy which predisposes you to that. No way is entirely easy, and in that of surrender the difficulty is to make a true ...
... just what he calls "lesser truths". What is the true meaning of "tapasya"? Tapasya is the discipline one imposes upon oneself to arrive at the discovery of the Divine. Are tapasya and aspiration the same thing? No, you can't do tapasya without aspiration. Aspiration is first, the will to attain something. Tapasya is the process—there is indeed a process, a method. Page 343 ... the forces of the Ignorance—is it clear? Page 341 Sri Aurobindo says here, "...The aspiration and tapasya needed [are] too constant..." 1 Yes, one cannot do the yoga if one does not take it seriously. For one must be very serious to have a constant aspiration and do tapasya. If one is not serious, for five minutes one has an aspiration and for ten hours one hasn't; for one day there ...
... strength for the creation of the necessary conditions and they failed. Of those who worked, some gave up the work, others persisted, a few resorted to tapasya , the effort to wake in themselves a higher Power to which they might call for help. The tapasya of those last had its effect unknown to themselves, for they were pouring out a selfless aspiration into the world and the necessary conditions began... the great desire for freedom in the heart of the nation and hasten the growth of the necessary material strength. Page 938 What is needed now is a band of spiritual workers whose tapasya will be devoted to the liberation of India for the service of humanity. The few associations already started have taken another turn and devoted themselves to special and fragmentary work. We need ...
... fire is individual and takes usually the form of a fire of aspiration or personal tapasya. This Fire is universal and it came from above. The psychic fire may burn in the vital. It all depends on whether it is the fire of the general Force that comes from above or the fire of your soul's aspiration and tapasya. All that [ fire in the heart and elsewhere ] is simply the burning of the... that is the seat of the psychic and the fact that it burns strongly when you sit alone points to the same thing. The Psychic Fire The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and tapasya which comes from the psychic being. It is not the psychic being, but a power of the psychic being. The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame—the psychic fire is not the being, it is something... aṅguṣṭha-mātraḥ puruṣo'ntarātmā —it may manifest first as this psychic flame. The fire [ one feels within ] is always the fire of sacrifice and self-offering, the fire of aspiration or the fire of tapasya. That the constant fire of aspiration has to be lit is true; but this fire is the psychic fire and it is lit or burns up and increases as the psychic grows within and for the psychic to grow ...
... dangerous to assume from that that no tapasya and no endeavour is needful—for that might very well mean inertia. I have seen too that very often a long tapasya with doubtful results prepares the moment of grace and the spontaneous downflow. All which seem to be contradictions, but are not in a whole view of things. Page 172 What X says about tapasya is of course true. If one is not prepared... mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ "I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve." Grace and Tapasya Your experience about the meditation is common enough—I used to have it or analogous things hundreds of times. I suppose it is to teach us first that grace is more effective than tapasya and, secondly, that either equanimity or a cheerful spontaneous happy self-opening is as effective,... that way. Supposing it is the impersonal Self of all only, yet the Upanishad says of the Self and its realisation, "This understanding is not to be gained by Page 169 reasoning nor by tapasya nor by much learning, but whom this Self chooses, to him it reveals its own body." Well, that is the same thing as what we call the Divine Grace,—it is an action from above or from within independent ...
... of cells fail to respond, and the Force cannot act. So what must be found is.... ( silence ) Even in this, right now, in what I am saying, there's a sense of tapasya; there's the whole inner consciousness making the body do a tapasya. But my knowledge and my certainty (what I KNOW) is Page 101 that it may be a necessary preparation, but it is NOT what accomplishes the work. 15 Rather... signs. I know them through personal experience, for they are two things that can ONLY come with the supramental consciousness; without it, one cannot possess them—no yogic effort, no discipline, no tapasya can give them to you, while they come almost automatically with the supramental consciousness. The first sign is perfect equality as Sri Aurobindo has described it (you must know it, there's a whole... hemisphere behind and enter another one. That's the feeling. The day it's established, it will be good. ( silence ) And it results neither from an aspiration nor a seeking nor an effort nor a tapasya nor anything else: it comes, bang! ( same irresistible gesture ) And when it goes away, something like... like an imprint in the sand remains—in the consciousness. The consciousness is like a layer ...
... t rite & ceremony. Without tapasya there can be no Veda. This was the course that the stream of thought followed among us, according to the sense of our Indian tradition. The capacity for tapasya belongs to the Golden Age of man's fresh Page 308 virility; it fades as humanity ages & the cycle takes its way towards the years that are of Iron, and with tapasya, the basis, divine knowledge ...
... Today's visitors can, however, see the Tapoban hills on the outskirts of Deoghar. It was in a small cave of Tapoban that Balananda Brahmachari Maharaj practised tapasya. When Rajnarain Bose was alive, Balanandaji was already engaged in his tapasya. He had great regard for Rajnarain. In 1897 when the latter became bedridden following a stroke which paralyzed his right side, Balanandaji became a steadfast... Mahakal so that she may see her son Pitambar once more before breathing her last. Mahakal appeared to her and very lovingly said, "Daughter, soon your wish will be fulfilled. Your son is engaged in tapasya at Baidyanath, on the Tapoban hill. He is now called Balananda. Go there and you will find your lost son." Thus mother and son met after forty years. An emotional reunion. What amazes me is how... said, "He was young when I saw him. In this photo he looks very jolly." Looking at another one, he said, "Yes, this is more like him." Added Sri Aurobindo, "I saw him only once. He was doing much tapasya." Page 84 ...
... control with a view to the maximisation of the faculties and the heightening of consciousness generally. Every austerity or tapasya will lead to the corresponding liberation or siddhi. Naturally enough, at the base of everything there is the austerity of the body, the tapasya of Beauty: Its basic programme will be to build a body that is beautiful in form, harmonious in posture, supple and... decide whether one wants to remain part of the humanity of yesterday or to belong to the superhumanity of tomorrow. 14 So far about the austerity of the body, the tapasya of Beauty. As for vital austerity or the tapasya of Power, the principle again is, not outright rejection, but judicious choice and utilisation with "wisdom and discernment". Even as sex energies are to be transmuted by... calm and sober acceptance, moderate and detached enjoyment, and the poise and delight in existence born of an awakened and luminous consciousness. Such austerity is the true Page 540 tapasya, and this can take the fourfold forms of Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. The gradation is from Love above to Beauty below, and accordingly we may look upon the ascent from Beauty - through Power ...
... and the motionless. It is that which has been worshipped as God by the religions. It is not a mere guess or fantasy, but a reality that can actually be experienced. When, as a result of a life of tapasya, there is a blooming of the inner life and when desire and ego are destroyed, this supreme Reality can be realised, in a deep silence, by all aspirants. IV. The presence of the Divine is there... by his egoistic individual consciousness, is whirled in the darkness of ignorance and struggles in the storm of desire. He cannot in any way become equal to the seer who, as a result of a life of tapasya and the descent of the Grace from above, becomes pure, egoless, calm and immersed constantly in the bliss of the Divine. As the sweet smell emerges only out of a full-blown flower, the supreme reality ...
... illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire. The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Experiences Associated with the Psychic ...
... Treasures - Edition-II Forget the Past To forget the past and to lose habits of thinking is indeed a difficult thing and generally requires a strong "tapasya". But if you have faith in the Divine's Grace and you implore it full-heartedly, you will succeed more easily. Blessings. 22 November 1968 The Mother ...
... in the second, generally in much more difficult circumstances. There is only one way of getting free from life altogether, it is to go to Nirvana; and this can be obtained only by a very strict tapasya of complete detachment. There is also another and more simple way of getting out of trouble, it is to take refuge in the Divine's love. ...
... own. I am told Ramakrishna asked him to do more Tapasya, achieve greater Yogic realisation. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't know exactly what Yogic realisation he had. I have read many books about him but couldn't gather a precise idea of it. Even the official biography of him doesn't give any definite information. PURANI: People say he did a lot of Tapasya at the time he was a parivrajaka, a wandering... wandering Yogi. SRI AUROBINDO: Was it this kind of Tapasya Ramakrishna meant? SATYENDRA: Vivekananda had a sort of Nirvanic experience. He has himself mentioned something about it. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, that experience is the only one definitely known. PURANI: He also had a vision at Amarnath. But he seemed always torn between two tendencies—world-work and direct sadhana. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. And ...
... April 28, 1932 It is more perhaps an attitude of eager straining and pulling that tires the physical than anything else. Of course, if there is undue tapasya—not eating, not sleeping or resting enough etc., that also brings in the end a reaction in the body. In writing about the body and its fatigue, I merely intended to state the general principles ...
... Darjeeling; she did not die under assumed name. Page 208 (The topic turned to Jainism) Sri Aurobindo : We were talking about the Tapasya yesterday. Is it not to transcend nature and conquer that they do those violent Tapasyas and not from an idea of illusion? Disciple : Perhaps that was the idea. Sri Aurobindo : Then their aim is the same as ours, only the method ...
... 10 March 1959 Do not be discouraged because of difficulties—Whenever one wants to achieve something in life, difficulties come—Take them as discipline (Tapasya) to make you strong and you will more easily overcome them. ...
... you there is only one way, and the depth of your heart is aware of it also. It is right when it feels that you will get what you want—and you are right to wait—because to know how to wait is also a Tapasya because at the end there will be a miracle . For believe it or not, all life is a constant miracle. ...
... Sadhana, Tapasya, Aradhana, Dhyana Sadhana is the practice of Yoga. Tapasya is the concentration of the will to get the results of sadhana and to conquer the lower nature. Aradhana is worship of the Divine, love, self-surrender, aspiration to the Divine, calling the name, prayer. Dhyana is inner concentration of the consciousness, meditation, going inside in Samadhi. Dhyana, tapasya and aradhana... but the knower, lord and upholder of the nature; but having become so or even in becoming so, one offers all that to the Divine. One may begin with knowledge or with works or with Bhakti or with Tapasya of self-purification for perfection (change of nature) and develop the rest as a subsequent movement or one may combine all in one movement. There is no single rule for all, it depends on the personality ...
... land, attacked him and seized his kingdom. Then he, accompanied by his wife with the child yet at such a tender age, retired to a forest; in that deep and wild forest he began to do austere tapasya by observing great and difficult vows. His son, though born in the city, was brought up in that penance-grove; in him, whose name is Satyavan, I saw an agreeably proper husband for me and I... heroic deeds, is full of truth, and has regulated senses; he is friendly with everybody, without envy, and is of a reserved shy disposition, radiant as he is. Those who have advanced in tapasya, and grown rich in virtuous nobility, say briefly about him that, he is Page 17 always straightforward, and is steadfast, and is well established in those qualities. ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: It would be easier when you bring down a settled peace and equanimity into that part of the being. There will then be more of an automatic rejection of such movements and less need of Tapasya. (27.8.32) ...
... other of surrender" [ p. 4 ]. Once you interpreted a vision I had as Agni, the fire of purification and tapasya, producing the Sun of Truth. What path do I follow? What place has tapasya in the path of surrender? Can one do absolutely without tapasya in the path of surrender? There is a tapasya that takes place automatically as the result of surrender and there is a discipline that one carries out... out by one's own unaided effort—it is the latter that is meant in the "two paths of Yoga". But Agni as the fire of tapasya can burn in either case. 4 January 1937 The Mother, in her Conversations, says that "the first effect of Yoga ... is to take away the mental control" [ p. 5 ] so that the ideas and desires which were so long checked become surprisingly prominent and create difficulties. Would ...
... constant and permanent state. But the state of bhakti and constantly growing surrender does not come to all at an early stage of the sadhana; many, most indeed, have a long journey of purification and tapasya to go through before it opens, and experiences of this kind, at first rare and interspaced, afterwards frequent, are the landmarks of their progress. It depends on certain conditions, which have nothing ...
... justify one's wrong. If one does that, it comes again and makes it more difficult to get rid of it. Disciple : 'Y' after doing so much Tapasya is thinking of leaving the Ashram and that too after twelve years of stay. Sri Aurobindo : What Tapasya? If complete control was given to him he would have stayed perhaps. Disciple : He says, he is helping the Mother. Sri Aurobindo ...
... little child Huta, I have received all your letters. Do not be discouraged because of difficulties. Whenever one wants to achieve something in life, difficulties come. Take them as a discipline (tapasya) to make you strong and you will more easily overcome them. My love, help and blessings are always with you. Not a single day did I forget my goal. The flame of aspiration was burning steadily ...
... and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen ...
... adopt the four austerities which will result in the four liberations. Their practice will constitute the fourfold discipline or Tapasya which can be thus defined: (1) Tapasya of Love. (2) Tapasya of Knowledge. (3) Tapasya of Power. (4) Tapasya of Beauty. The gradation is, so to say, from above downwards; but the steps, as they stand, should not be taken to mean... Only an overall view will be given here presenting an ideal procedure that is as complete as possible. Everyone will then have to apply it as far as he can and as best he can. The Tapasya or discipline of beauty will take us through the austerity of physical life, to freedom in action. The basic programme will be to build a body, beautiful in form, harmonious in posture, supple and... with wisdom, its activities divided between wisely graded progressive exercises, required for the culture of the body and the kind of work you do, For both can and should form part of the physical Tapasya. With regard to exercises, each one should choose what suits best his body and, if possible, under the guidance of an expert on the subject who knows how to combine and grade the exercises for their ...
... the spice of his banquet, drinking the red wine of life and death, while on the marble floor at his feet are strewn like flowers the images of the same stars that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of Yayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey's head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and Caesar bleeding at Pompey's sculptured feet ...
... Parvati's Tapasya Acknowledgements This monograph is part of a series on Value-oriented Education centered on three values: Illumination, Heroism and Harmony. The research, preparation and publication of the monographs that form part of this series are the result of the cooperation of the following members of the research team of the Sri Aurobindo International ...
... exactly as she had seen him in her vision. Before Sri Aurobindo came to Pondicherry he did Tapasya and, while he was in the Alipore jail, he had the first instruction from Swami Vivekananda as to the direction for the later Tapasya. Eighteen years later, in 1926, he got the Siddhi of his Tapasya when Sri Krishna entered in his subtle physical body. That was the merging of the Overmental c... consciousness of Sri Krishna in the body of Sri Aurobindo. It was the eighteen years of his Tapasya that had brought down the Truth, like the eighteen years of Tapasya of Aswapati that had brought down Savitri. After 1926, the Mother established Sri Aurobindo as a spiritual Master to his disciples. Before this, his close disciples used to call him AG or Sir. He was looked upon as a great... a great transforming power and an uplifting vibration "a total and many-sided vision and experience of all the planes of being and their action upon each other." 3 Aswapati is "the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour" who, carrying within his bosom Man's eternal aspiration, dares "the unplumbed infinitudes" and brings to earth-consciousness the Divine Shakti who will ...
... him. Finally a temple dancer, named Valli, devoted to the Lord Shiva, decided to do her best to get the attention of the yogi, and to rescue the King and his people from the adverse effects of his tapasya. She observed that occasionally the Siddha would, with his eyes shut, put out his hands to catch and consume the falling, withered peepal leaves. So she prepared some thinly fried apalam (a flat salty... back to her house where she kept him in his best moods, dancing for him and learning songs from him. Meanwhile the God of Rain was relieved from the torture induced on him by the heat of the yogi's tapasya, the rain fell in plenty, and the people were happy once again. In order to celebrate this event the King ordered a big Puja to be held at Irumbai temple, which was to be followed by a classical ...
... feelings you become unhappy, when you concentrate on the mind you get bewildered. There are two ways of getting out of this precarious condition. One is very arduous; it is a severe and continuous tapasya. It is the way of the strong who are predestined for it. The other is to find something worth concentrating upon that diverts your attention from your small personal self—The most effective is a ...
... Monnet Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Philosophy of Supermind and Contemporary Crisis Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards ...
... death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save; Aswapati, the Lord of the Horse, her human father, is the Lord of Tapasya, the concentrated energy of spiritual endeavour that helps us to rise from the mortal to the immortal planes; Dyumatsena, Lord of the Shining Hosts, father of Satyavan, is the Divine Mind here fallen ...
... n of personal tapasya and effort; (ii)through the mediation of divine Grace; and (iii)by the agency of yogic power. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have both discussed in their writings all these three means in great detail. Because of dearth of space we cannot but succinctly give their gist here. (i) Let us first discuss the factor of personal effort and tapasya. It is true that... ṣ ena jīyate", "Even Fate can be conquered by personal tapasya". The sage Vasistha has unambiguously stated in his Vedantic treatise, Yoga-vashishtha: Aihikaṁ prakṛtaṁ vāpi Karma yad sañcitaṁ sphurat; Puruso 'sau paw yatno Na kadācana niṣphalaḥ — meaning thereby: "Puruṣakāra or personal tapasya never fails to Page 131 annul a karma done ...
... A sincere consecration of all you are and all you do is for the sadhana much more effective than meditation. True love and consecration lead much quicker to the Divine than an arduous Tapasya. 26 April 1937 ...
... come, the will and faith in thy nature, thy ideal on which heart and brain are agreed and the voice of Himself or His angels. 268—There are times when action is unwise or impossible; then go into Tapasya 1 in some physical solitude or in the retreats of thy soul and await whatever divine word or manifestation. 269—Leap not too quickly at all voices, for there are lying spirits ready to deceive ...
... kept beating and beating.... ( after a silence ) The body is convinced that all its difficulties are tolerated because they're part of the tapasya [discipline], so it doesn't refuse them—it doesn't complain, doesn't refuse—but... it's a fierce tapasya. Page 258 And it's not merely the play of forces: it's conscious. 3 It's conscious and has the obstinacy of a conscious will. ...
... him out? That is a yogic attitude. He also seems to belong to the Overmind. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: I went to Dilip today. He asked me if it was true that you had said that the spirit of your Tapasya is behind the Hindu Sabha movement. SRI AUROBINDO: What did you say? NIRODBARAN: I said that I didn't know. It came out in the paper under the name of the secretary, so it may be true. SRI... secretary, it may be Nolini. PURANI: No, Anilbaran, I think. Perhaps it was written privately to somebody and they have published it. SRI AUROBINDO (after some time) : Who knows, the spirit of my Tapasya may be behind the Khaksar movement also. The Divine Force is everywhere. NIRODBARAN: I told Dilip all that you had said about poetry. SRI AUROBINDO: What was that? NIRODBARAN: About creative ...
... difficulty that stands in the way of a happy manifestation here in the fulfilment of this great and godly endeavour with which all began in Time. The exceptional Yogi has, after a long and arduous tapasya, gathered in his spirit that strength by which a totally new and effective process can be set into motion. It is then that he becomes the Lord of Life, becomes Aswapati: Ashwa, the Horse, is a Vedic... virtuous. But he is issueless. With the passing of time, and with the advancing of his age, this causes him great affliction. Therefore, with the intention of getting a son, he engages himself in arduous tapasya. He retires to a forest and for eighteen years worships goddess Savitri. Observing the strictest rules of conduct and of worship, he offers every day a hundred thousand oblations to her. Pleased... king, his past enemy, takes advantage of this situation and invades his kingdom. Dyumatsena is defeated and driven out. With his wife and child-son he retires to the forest and engages himself in tapasya. The child, named Satyavan, grows in the hermitage under the tutorship of the sages and Rishis of the forest. Savitri discloses that it is Satyavan whom she has chosen as her life's partner. ...
... and hurts the mental, vital and physical elements or violates the God within us who is seated in the inner subtle body, then too it is an unwise, an Asuric, a rajasic or rajaso-tamasic tapasya. Sattwic tapasya is that which is done with a highest enlightened faith, as a duty deeply accepted or for some ethical or spiritual or other higher reason and with no desire for any external or narrowly... less wisely by the unwise. All dynamic action may be reduced in its essential parts to these three elements. For all dynamic action, all kinesis of the nature involves a voluntary or an involuntary tapasya or askesis, an energism and concentration of our forces or capacities or of some capacity which helps us to achieve, to acquire or to become something, tapas . All action involves a giving of what... form. This is the supreme self-surpassing state arrived at by the action that is sacrifice, this the perfection of the soul that has come to its full consciousness in the divine nature. Tamasic tapasya is that which is pursued under a clouded and deluded idea hard and obstinate in its delusion, maintained by an ignorant faith in some cherished falsehood, performed with effort and suffering imposed ...
... four austerities which will result in four liberations within us. The practice of these austerities will constitute a fourfold discipline or tapasya which can be defined as follows: 1) Tapasya of love 2) Tapasya of knowledge 3) Tapasya of power 4) Tapasya of beauty These terms have been listed from top to bottom, so to say, but their order should not be taken to indicate anything superior... , only an overall view will be given here, presenting an ideal procedure that is as complete as possible. Each one will then have to apply as much of it as he can in the best possible way. The tapasya or discipline of beauty will lead us, through austerity in physical life, to freedom in action. Its basic programme will be to build a body that is beautiful in form, harmonious in posture, supple... between the progressive and skilfully graded exercises required for the culture of the Page 52 body, and work of some kind or other. For both can and ought to form part of the physical tapasya. With regard to exercises, each one will choose the ones best suited to his body and, if possible, take guidance from an expert on the subject, who knows how to combine and grade the exercises to obtain ...
... Joan of Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati's Tapasya Taittiriya Upanishad Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Svapna Vasavadattam Arguments for the Existence of God ...
... contact may have harmful effects, and care and tapasya are needed to avoid confusion. I want to know which view is correct. Page 317 It is not possible to make a fixed rule covering all cases and circumstances; sometimes one has to remain quiet waiting for the Mother's light and force to act, sometimes it is necessary to use an active tapasya. But one thing is always necessary, to refuse ...
... learned and elderly ashram-dwellers gathered around them and gave them comforting assurances; they then took them back to their hermitage. Page 73 The elders, grown rich in tapasya, narrated to the grieving couple, encouraging and consoling them, several meaningful stories of the ancient kings. In spite of these repeated assurances, possessed as they were by the... Brahmins, the speaker of the Truth-Word, began telling them this wise. Suvarchas said: His wife Savitri, I know, is engaged in tapasya, and has control over the senses, and is of a good well-poised conduct; from that I can proclaim that Satyavan is alive. Page 74 ...
... touch from within and above. Self-consecration may help one to open to the touch or the touch may come of itself. But conversion may also come as the culmination of a long process of aspiration and Tapasya. There is no fixed rule in these things. If the psychic being comes to the front, then conversion becomes easy or may come instantaneously or the conversion may bring the psychic being to the front ...
... of course be useless to tell them in the true terms because they would not understand. But you can put it in this way which they will perhaps find intelligible. A.G. is engaged in Pondicherry in Tapasya for Yoga Siddhi which is necessary before he takes up his future work. As Gandhi believes in soul force, that is to say in an inner moral force as the one thing necessary behind all true action, so ...
... European enthusiasm shall we conquer. Indians, it is the spirituality of India, the sadhana of India, tapasya, jnanam, shakti that must make us free and great. And these great things of the East are ill-rendered by their inferior English equivalents, discipline, philosophy, strength. Tapasya is more than discipline; it is the materialisation in ourselves by spiritual means of the divine energy ...
... consciousness, lifts himself a little more, grows into a higher degree of consciousness, it is a gain. But he will have to do it with much greater difficulty than before; it will need far greater Tapasya now. For as long as Mother was in her body, she made things easy for us. But it is no more so. For those who really want a spiritual consciousness, a spiritual mode of life, those who truly... you must first acquire the right to do so—you must do citta- ś uddhi and accomplish the purification of your consciousness. When Mother was in her body, she used to say: "This elementary Tapasya you need not go through; with the support of my body, you can simply take a leap and rise above." Mother offered us her body as a springboard so that we might leap up. But we did not take the benefit... of intellect. But for those who aspire not only to educate and polish Page 65 their mind but also to heighten and transform their consciousness, for them today is needed a Tapasya, a concentration, an intense concentration of all their force and will on that one aspiration, on that one arduous effort. For them the only thing to do is self-purification—purification of the body ...
... Association in Cuttack. Here is the piece for your reading: "Since time immemorial man has tried to conquer death. We read in the Puranas that the Rishis and even the asuras were doing great Tapasya to become immortal. In medieval Europe kings kept alchemists to find out the process by which man could prolong his youth and life, as well as other things like discovering formulae to make gold! The ...
... vation and the integrality of its outlook. A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race Page 133. Other titles in the Illumination and Harmony series Parvati's Tapasya Nala and Damayanti The siege Of Troy Alexander the great Homer and the Iliad- Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Joan of Arc The crucifixion ...
... Parvati's Tapasya Glossary 1. Cupid: god of Love (or Desire) for the Romans. In Sanskrit this god has many names: Kama (desire), Manobhava (born of the mind), Smara (remembrance), Manmatha (the one who churns the mind), Madana (the one who intoxicates). 2. The daughter of the Mountain: Parvati means the daughter of Parvat, i.e. the mountain, Himalaya. Shailaja ...
... which did not eventually happen even after delay, defeat or even disaster." (On Himself, p. 169) Such is the potency of the Will of our Master and such the noble future towards which his Tapasya is directed. Now, we the Ashramites of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, where do we stand in this 'Hour of God'? Does it behove us to be forgetful of our spiritual commitment and of the purpose of our stay... time, let us pass on the baton of spiritual endeavour to those sun-eyed children of the Mother who are destined to appear "in the march of all-fulfilling Time", join this Ashram and turn it by their Tapasya into the divine Dream-Home of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother upon earth. Victoire à la Douce M è re: Victory to the Mother Divine! Page 91 ...
... burnt by Damayanti's curse "like fire burnt by fire", and "was defeated by my endeavours and tapasya" What were Nala's efforts to defeat Kali and overcome the deep crisis in which he had been plunged? It would be too long to list all of them but we would like to underline three stages in his tapasya that were crucial in his battle against darkness and which were all the more heroic because... In fact, this transformation is the beginning of the process of recovery. From that moment, "no one can recognize you", said the snake. This leads us to the second stage in Nala's tapasya. The second step in his tapasya is his period of Ajnaatavaas.On the advice of Karkotaka, Nala goes to Ayodhya. There, under the name of Bahuka, he proposes his services to the King Rituparna. He will look after... that very moment he is sent into exile. Shakuntala awaits her marriage and then she is cursed by a Rishi and forgotten by her lover. Vishvamitra is about to reap the fruit of thousands of years of tapasya when he gets angry and loses everything in a second. Rare are the linear lives in which upheaval of some kind does not take place. What does one need for going undefeated through all this? What ...
... Take my own case. On one of my birthdays, in the beginning, I took the flower Unselfishness , and started going to Mother. Then I added one by one Gratitude, Surrender, Humility, Purity, Devotion, Tapasya, and finally a flower of Divine's love placed in one of Gratitude . Then as I was about to go to Mother with all these, the idea came to me: “What am I doing? The same thing for which I find fault ...
... worry. Sometimes no tapasya is necessary—one just refers things to the Power that one feels guiding or doing the sadhana and assents to its action, rejecting all that is contrary to it, and the Power removes what has to be removed or changes what has to be changed, quickly or slowly—but the quickness or slowness does not seem to matter since one is sure that it will be done. If tapasya is necessary, it... having two sides to it,—the grace of the Guru or the Divine, in fact both together, on one side and a "state of grace" in the disciple on the other. This "state of grace" is often prepared by a long tapasya or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and it comes suddenly without warning. If this is what is spoken of in Ramakrishna's... it is done with so much feeling of a strong support that there is nothing hard or austere in the tapasya. For the others, the "baby monkey" type or those who are still more independent, following their own ideas, doing their own sadhana, asking only for some instruction or help, the grace of the Guru is there, but it acts according to the nature of the sadhak and waits upon his effort to a greater ...
... you become unhappy, when you concentrate on the mind you get bewildered. There are two ways of getting out of this precarious condition. One is very arduous; it is a severe and continuous tapasya. It is the way of the strong who are predestined for it. The other is to find something worth concentrating upon that diverts your attention from your small personal self. The most effective is ...
... justify one's wrong-doing. If one does that, it comes again and makes it difficult for one to get rid of it. NIRODBARAN: Purushottam, after doing so much Tapasya, is speaking of going away. He has been here twelve years! SRI AUROBINDO: What Tapasya? If we give him complete freedom and control over things, he will perhaps stay. NIRODBARAN: He says he is helping The Mother in the work. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... there is little hope of advancing rapidly towards the future. 23 December 1967 To forget the past and to lose habits of thinking is indeed a difficult thing and generally requires a strong "tapasya". But if you have faith in the Divine's Grace and you implore it full-heartedly, you will succeed more easily. Blessings. 22 November 1968 Let the waves of the past flow far from you ...
... Arc Nala and Damayanti Alexander the Great Siege of Troy Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Parvati 's Tapasya Sri Krishna in Vrindavan Socrates Nachiketas Sri Rama Compiled by Kireet Joshi On Materialism Towards Universal Fraternity ...
... Power to help your will, aspiration and surrender and make them effective. Why "getting" aspiration? Aspiration is an act of the will and one can always aspire. Activity in aspiration, tapasya, rejection of the wrong forces, passivity to the true working, the working of the Mother's force are the right things in sadhana. One has to aspire to the Divine and surrender and leave it to... touch from within and above. Self-consecration may help to open one to the touch or the touch may come of itself. But conversion may also come as the culmination of a long process of aspiration and tapasya. There is no fixed rule in these things. If the psychic being comes to the front, then conversion becomes easy or may come instantaneously or the conversion may bring the psychic being to the front ...
... established in the truth. He rules over his kingdom with love and has concern for its citizens. But he is issueless. Therefore with the intention of getting a son he engages himself in arduous tapasya. He retires to a forest and for eighteen years worships goddess Savitri. Pleased with his commitment to truth the goddess emerges out of the sacrificial flames and grants him the boon of a daughter... But the tapasvins of the forest assuage their fear. They pronounce that as Savitri is an exceptional woman, of virtuous qualities, and is fixed in the dharma, and has made great progress in her tapasya, nothing injurious can happen to Satyavan and that he is alive. In the tranquil benign surroundings and in the manner and movement of the dumb animals and birds they observe a secret presence of ...
... They did not know the way towards physical transformation. Perhaps it was too early to realize it collectively here in this death-bound world. Now Sri Aurobindo by his intense and arduous yoga-tapasya has prepared the required ground, made ready the ādhā r for the spirit's wide-ranging activities. He has made it a reality in the evolutionary manifestation. He has invoked the supreme Grace... desire" has to rise to bring her birth amongst us. This is done, again, by the Supreme himself, coming here as the Son of Force. He comes here as eternal Aswapati, as the king of Madra in the Land of Tapasya. He does intense Yoga-Sadhana in the Earth-consciousness. He discerns the "wide world-failure's cause" and offers his prayer to the supreme Goddess to mission down a living form of hers. It is here ...
... he makes his mind and vital quiet, even those who have a tenth of your capacity can do it. It is the other way of tension and strain and hard endeavour that is difficult and needs a great force of Tapasya. As for the Mother and myself, we have had to try all ways, follow all methods, to surmount mountains of difficulties, a far heavier burden to bear than you or anybody else in this Asram or outside ...
... on, not self-annulment. There are two paths set for the feet of the Yogin, withdrawal from the universe and perfection in the Universe; the first comes by asceticism, the second is effected by tapasya; the first receives us when we lose God in Existence, the second is attained when we fulfil existence in God. Let ours be the path of perfection, not of abandonment; let our aim be victory in the battle ...
... aloof, disinterested. I was pining to return to my true home—the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. I also had a glimpse of Dakshineshwar, on the other side of the Ganges. Here Ramakrishna lived, meditated, did tapasya and realised the Supreme Goddess. Temples of Kali, Radha and Krishna form part of the complex. There is a big banyan tree known as Panchvati, referring to Sri Ramakrishna's five-fold sadhana which ...
... thanksgiving and quiet trust and hopefulness. Certainly, it means self-forgetfulness and selflessness, as it cannot co-exist with the sense of personal worth and merit, with any appreciation of one's own tapasya and achievement, even as it thrives ill upon self-abasement and self-denigration, for if one is rajasic, the other is tamasic egoism —egoism, in any case. Absolute nullity of the egoistic self ...
... thanksgiving and quiet trust and hopefulness. Certainly, it means self-forgetfulness and selflessness, as it cannot co-exist with the sense of personal worth and merit, with any appreciation of one's own tapasya and achievement, even as it thrives ill upon self-abasement and self-denigration, for if one is rajasic, the other is tamasic egoism – egoism, in any case. Absolute nullity of the egoistic self ...
... has been my teaching. The turn to vairagya, to tapasya of an ascetic kind was the impulse of something in your own nature; it insisted on its necessity just as a part of the vital insisted on its opposite: even it condemned my suggestion of something less grim and strenuous as an easy-going absence of aspiration etc. I do not say that vairagya and tapasya are not ways to reach Page 381 the... takes them, one must be determined and go through. For one part to push all zest out of the vital and for the other to regret and say, why did I ever do it, will never do. And it is in this kind of tapasya that perfection or at least perfect purification is demanded before there can be any realisation. I have never said that for my Yoga; the only thing I insist upon is some faith, inner surrender and ...
... silence. It was only after persuasion by Gandhi that he gave it up. SRI AUROBINDO: It is what the Gita calls Asuric Tapasya. NIRODBARAN: Can one gain anything and advance by that? SRI AUROBINDO: Why not? But there is the question: what and how far? Physical and vital Tapasya can give some control over the body and the vital being. But it looks more like Nigraha, forceful suppression. NIRODBARAN: ...
... pp. 239-40. 39. Ibid., p. 43. 40. Ibid., pp. 48-49. 41. Underlined in the original. 42. A I'Ecoute de jean Monnet, op. cit., p. 56. 43. Tapasya: from the Sanskrit root: tap, to heat. In. the yogic tradition tapasya describes the gathering of all faculties on a unique point — a concentration so intense and powerful that it can produce fire. Page 63 ...
... mind, basing itself upon this ineluctable Justice, strives to bring about conditions that should lead logically to good health. The moral consciousness acts in the same way in the social body and tapasya in the spiritual domain. The Divine Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice. The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To ...
... himself slip, even for a moment, even to the extent of a hair's breadth. *** The only atonement for a wrong thing done is to do the right thing on the next occasion. *** Tapasya: Never to let yourself slip down, always to maintain your progress up the slope. *** Never say, "I cannot." Look more closely, you will find that it means in reality, "I want not." ...
... happen, etc.' Oh! It reeks! I know it well. I know it very well. These laws reek of falsehood. In the body, we have no faith in the divine Grace, none, none, none, none! Those who have not undergone a tapasya 2 as I have, say, 'Yes, all these inner moral things, feelings, psychology, all that is very good; we want the Divine and we are ready to ... But all the same, material facts are material facts... This last sentence was later added by Mother in writing. × Tapasya : yogic discipline or askesis. × May 1, 1958 . ...
... seems to give boons to the Asuras, sometimes to both the opposite parties in the fight, sometimes boons which are contradictory to former ones. SRI AUROBINDO: He says, "This fellow has done some Tapasya, let me give him something." He is also Bholanath: he doesn't remember what he has given. DR. MANILAL: In the Puranas his boons lead sometimes to destruction. SATYENDRA: He is also the God of ...
... at harmony in deepest and finest richness of both and united in their satisfied consonant expression of the inner significances of things and life. VII There is loss of austerity of Tapasya in his way of working, a less severely restrained expression of eternal things and of the Page 83 fundamental truths behind the forms of things, but there is in compensation a moved ...
... was doing his tapasya . 5 These people have an age-old knowledge—the ancient Vedic knowledge which they have preserved. In other words, it is something CONCRETELY TRUE: it doesn't depend at all on the mind, on thought or even on feelings—it's a vibration. What about this flower, this long corn-like stalk? Page 61 Yes, this flower is Shiva, doing his tapasya . And interestingly... tectorius (Keora or Screw Pine). Subsequently, Mother named this flower 'Spiritual Perfume.' × Tapasya : ascetic or yogic discipline. × Asura : demon of the mental plane embodying the forces of division ...
... of our movement, an inward uplifting, a grander and more impetuous force behind thought and deed . . . tapasya, jnanam , sakti that must make us free and great. And these great things of the East are ill-rendered by their inferior English equivalents, discipline, philosophy, strength. Tapasya is more than discipline; it is the materialisation in ourselves by spiritual means of the divine energy ...
... by Yogis is that one should not speak of one's experience to others except of course the Guru while the sadhana is going on because it wastes the experience, there is what they call kṣaya of the tapasya. It is only long past experiences that they speak of and even that not too freely. The Light left you because you spoke of it to someone who was not an adhikārī . It is safest not to speak... must be done until the condition either becomes stable or comes automatically or at will, as described above. This is not pulling, so you need not hesitate to go on with it fully. It is the necessary tapasya. What prevents it from remaining is the natural lapse to a lower consciousness which comes either from the mind's or vital's inclination to indulge in accustomed occupations or by sleep or by losing ...
... He can kill ... maybe. It's the other side of his nature. There are many people who could kill if they had the courage to. In their feelings, they do kill. ( silence ) The body's tapasya is something quite interesting, really interesting. The body... You know, its modesty is total; it has a keen sense of all its limitations, all its incapacities, all its ignorance, all... and at the... these movements ( gesture forward ) lead to the Lord, while all those movements ( gesture backward ) lead away from the Lord. For a long time, the choice was necessary. And now, now it's doing its tapasya to be able to bear this idea—but without admitting or accepting movements of degradation and cruelty.... That is, with the nascent impression that things are not what they seem to be; that we only ...
... guise of sports!). This was taking place for the first time, not just in the Ashram, but on the whole earth! To have children doing the sadhana! And the Integral Yoga on top of it! And this agni-tapasya started with work on the body. The Playground became the field for life’s sadhana. Unknown to the children the great work was initiated to enable the Mother’s Force and Light to work even in the gross... with great affection and stupefied wonder as the Mother’s new unimaginable mode of action unfolded! The seriousness and sobriety of speech and action brought about by centuries of hard and severe tapasya began melting under the glow of the children’s cheerful energy. The elderly also began participating in the Mother’s new way of action. They seemed as if rejuvenated in body, mind and spirit. As ...
... remaining calm and tranquil, Page 27 and in their privacy, she saw, waiting upon her husband, that he was happy. O Yudhishthira, thus in that ashram, and engaged in tapasya, this way they lived, and a lot of time went by. But then Savitri, with me in her heart, was languishing ever; on getting up in the morning or while sleeping in the night, at every moment ...
... Gita expresses this teaching about absolute self-giving in Krishna's words: "Whatever thou doest, whatever thou enjoys, whatever thou sacrifices!, 69 whatever thou givest, whatever energy of Tapasya, 70 of the soul's will or effort thou puttest forth, make it an offering unto me." In Eckhart's teaching, surrender means relinquishing the resistance and the fighting mode of the egoic self... relying on personal effort to transform one's being, are often described as two opposite methods of spiritual practice. However, from Sri Aurobindo's viewpoint, "The process of surrender is itself a Tapasya." 74 In other words, surrender involves and is part of personal effort. Page 110 Personal effort, however, says Sri Aurobindo, is only one side of the power that works in leading... Divine. It has the original sense of 'making sacred'____"—Sri Aurobindo. Letters on Yoga. × "Tapasya is the concentration of the will to get the results of sadhana and to conquer the lower nature.".—Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, Sri Aurobindo, Letters on yoga.. SABCL. Vol. 23, p. 541. ...
... Parvati's Tapasya Notes Kalidasa's life "Valmiki, Vyasa and Kalidasa are the essence of the history of ancient India", said Sri Aurobindo, "if all else were lost, they would still be its sole and sufficient cultural history." Yet, of the life of these three great poets we know very little. And the three plays and four poems of Kalidasa tell us nothing... tricks to have her marry the young boy. After a few days, Vasanti discovered that her husband was an idiot and she ordered him out of the house. According to some stories, Kalidasa then undertook a tapasya and prayed to the goddess Kali. That is how he took the name of Kalidasa, the servant of Kali. The goddess was pleased and conferred on him high poetic genius. Then, a transformed man, he came back... Kalidasa's specific sources they are unknown. As the reader might be interested to have a taste of the narration in the Puranas, we present here a short extract of Shiva-Purana describing Parvati's tapasya. 29. Discarding all the fine clothes of her taste, she wore tree- barks and the fine girdle of Munja grass. 30. She eschewed necklace and wore the pure deerskin. She arrived at Gangavatarana* ...
... the extent of a hair's breadth. * The only atonement for a Wrong thing done is to do the right thing on the next occasion. * Tapasya : Never to let yourself slip down, always to maintain your progress up the slope. * Never say, "I cannot." Look more closely, you will find that it means in reality ...
... remove them. 26 August 1933 In my sadhana I have received only what I prayed for. I have yearned greatly for what has come to me. The Divine's reasonless Mercy is not so important to me as Tapasya, the capacity to open to Him and hold Him. This is my belief. It was by your personal efforts without guidance that you got into difficulties and into a heated condition in which you could not ...
... stage arrived in my life. Along with this came a quietude of mind, a constant memory of something which was fundamental. I had not yet developed the capacity to comprehend what I might achieve by tapasya or that for a while I had come to prepare myself here for things. Even the desire to understand them had not been born in me. The Matriculation examination solely occupied my mind. The thought of it ...
... already: "It is the Hour of God" ... "it is the hour of the unexpected." Moreover, Sri Aurobindo Ashram is present now gracefully and conspicuously with the world's highest wisdom, with the greatest tapasya, with the supernal light. People are coming there from different parts of the world, they are seeing and realising the living example of the future spiritual life of mankind. They are going back, imbibing ...
... aspiration. How should one set about detaching oneself from the mental action in order to be a witness? There is no device for these things. All is done by aspiration, tapasya (concentration, will etc.) or by opening oneself to the Divine Force. N told me, "Offering is a thing that comes by itself. One need not make any effort, for it is a movement of love... love and joy." Essentially that is true—it is the real nature of offering — but there is a veil of self-centred vital ego which many find it difficult to remove without an inner tapasya. Page 115 Is it not time I left the charge of my sadhana to the Mother's Force? That can be only when all is ready. The system has first to be accustomed to the Force ...
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