Tapasya
Tapasya Cross-legged posture. See also: Lotus Position Tapasya is the principle and practice of physical ... achieve a particular aim. A Sanskrit word, Tapasya is literally an personal endeavor of discipline ... field or context. One who undertakes a tapasya is a Tapasvin. Monks and gurus in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism practice tapasya as a means to purify and ...
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Swami Samarth Maharaj
... for Tapas [penance]. Pleased with his rigorous tapasya [penance], a learned ascetic named Shree Krishna ... Patalganga and disappeared. Rigorous PenanceHe performed rigorous tapasya [penance] on the Shree Shail mountain in ... he sat under a Deodar tree for tapasya [penance]. This Tapasya [penance] in the Himalayas lasted for nearly ... Saraswati. This resulted in the break in Tapasya [penance] and Shrimad Nrusimha Saraswati then ...
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Bhagiratha
... was flowing only in Swarga. Bhagiratha's tapasya Bringing Ganga back to Earth was a ... required many years to be spent in tapasya and prayer. The Kosala kings of successive ... to the Himalayas to perform an arduous tapasya in the extreme climate. For one thousand ... impact of this event. Bhagiratha performed a tapasya for Lord Shiva, living only on air ... Bhagiratha he should not have to perform tapasya to accomplish a noble goal such ...
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Vedavati
... as the fruit of his bhakti and tapasya. Dedication to Vishnu Her father wants his ... night and day and performing a great tapasya to win Vishnu for her husband. The ... bloom of her youth, enhanced by her tapasya. Violation and death Ravana, the emperor of ... curse Ravana as it would exhaust her tapasya, but pledges to return in another age ...
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Viswamitra
... beauty and life. Kaushika then undertakes a tapasya for several years to please Lord Shiva ... left humiliated while Vasishta restores his hermitage. Tapasya This incident made a deep impression on ... Himalayas to perform an even more severe tapasya for over a thousand years. He ceases ...
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Rama
... He accepts Rama's superiority, devotes his tapasya to him, pays homage to Rama and ... of killing rakshasas who are wrecking the tapasya and sacrifices of brahmins. Rama and Lakshmana ... to cross the ocean, Rama performs a tapasya, fasting and meditating in perfect dhyana for ...
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Shree Sadguru Digambardas Maharaj
... Shree Sadguru Beedkar Maharaj and started rigorous tapasya [penance]. It was here that he was ... back to Ratnagiri, and started his rigorous tapasya (penance). Blessed with graciousness by Shree Baba ...
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... Raj2004 16:08, 24 November 2005 (UTC) Tapasya Thanks for the rewrite on Tapasya. I created this from a quick search ...
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Tapasvin
Tapasvin A Tapasvin is a performer of Tapasya, a great human endeavor of discipline. The ... The Lord Siva sits in a perennial tapasya atop Mt. Kailash. Topics in Hinduism Shruti ...
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