Yoga as a Universal Science-11-3. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================================= Monday 16, June 2025, 07:45 Books Yoga & Meditation Yoga as a Universal Science-11-3. Chapter 11: Individual Disciplining of One's Own Self - 3. Tapas—Austerity of the Whole Personality Swami Krishnananda. ========================================================================================= Monday 16, June 2025, 06:10. Tapas—Austerity of the Whole Personality: The third niyama is tapas or austerity. This is something very interesting to think of and to understand in its real significance. Austerity or tapas is, generally speaking, a kind of self-restraint. The Self, in any of its expressions, has the tendency, in its individual location, to move towards an object outside. We think of the things of senses. The mind contemplates objects. And for all practical purposes of our daily existence, we are only minds. When our mind is thinking of something outside, 'we' are thinking of s...