PART I RIGHTEOUSNESS
CHAPTER 27
TAPAS[1]
261. Patient endurance of suffering and non-injuring of life, in these is contained the whole of tapas.
262. Austerities are for the austere of heart: it is profitless for others to take them up.
263. Is it because there should be some people to tend and feed ascetics that all the rest have forgotten tapas ?
264. It thou wouldst destroy thy foes and exalt those that love thee, know that such a power belongeth unto tapas.
265. Tapas fulfilleth all desires even in the very manner that is desired: therefore is it that men endeavour after tapas in this world.
- ↑ Austerities, self-mortification, and thought-concentration.
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