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Tapas
(3,534 words)
The Sanskrit word
tapas is frequently translated as “austerity” or more broadly as “asceticism.” The word itself derives from the Sanskrit verb
tap-, “to heat,” “to be hot.” Accordingly
tapas can refer to a variety of practices aimed at the generation of a kind of “heat” as well as to the heat so generated. Though the term eventually comes to mean a specifically “ascetic,” often painful heat produced by the practice of austerities such as fasting, and with asceticism more generally, its core meaning of the production of hea…
Date:
2020-05-18
