Blossom like a flower

Tapasya is a strong concentration of the energies for a result - but usually concentration of them in the practice of some discipline for a spiritual result.

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Tapasya is the concentration of the will to get the results of sadhana and to conquer the lower nature.

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When the will and 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.

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Tapasya
A discipline with the aim of realising the Divine.

Thorn apple
Large single white mildly fragrant erect trumpet-shaped flower with six shallow pointed lobes and a corolla tube partly encased in a large velvety inflated green calyx; borne singly from the leaf axils. A highly poisonous annual or short-lived perennial herb with large dark green tomentose leaves.


Mental Tapasya
The process leading to the goal.

Datura
Thorn apple
Large single or double mildly fragrant erect trumpet-shaped yellow flower with corolla tube partly encased in a large velvety inflated green calyx; borne singly from the leaf axils. A highly poisonous annual or short-lived perennial herb with large dark green tomentose leaves.


Vital Tapasya
The vital undergoes a rigorous discipline in order to transform itself.

Datura
Thorn apple
Large single, double or triple mildly fragrant erect trumpet-shaped violet flower with corolla tube partly encased in a large velvety inflated green calyx; borne singly from the leaf axils. A highly poisonous annual or short-lived perennial herb with large dark green tomentose leaves.


Integral Tapasya
The whole being lives only to know and serve the Divine.

Datura
Thorn apple
Large double mildly fragrant erect trumpet-shaped white flower with corolla tube partly encased in a large velvety inflated green calyx; borne singly from the leaf axils. A highly poisonous annual or short-lived perennial herb with large dark green tomentose leaves.


Perfect Tapasya
That which will reach its goal.

Brugmansia suaveolens
Angel's trumpet
Very large double pendulous trumpet-shaped white flower with the edge of the limb pleated into five pointed recurved lobes, yellow green corolla tube and the base of the flower set in a large glabrous inflated tubular green calyx. A small to medium- sized tree.