Yogsutra – Sadhana Paad, Yogsutra 43

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Patanjali continues to detail the benefits of practicing the yams and niyamas to motivate the practitioner, here he talks of the benefit of niyama of ‘tapas’,

kaayendriya siddhirashuddhi kshayaat tapasah

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Kaaya : body

Indriya : senses

Siddhi : perfection / supernormal powers

Ashuddhi : impurities

Kshayaat: from the removal of

Tapah: the niyam of ‘tapa’ or austerity

Practice of tapa leads to removal of impurities of body and senses and enables one to perfect them/attain supernatural feats.

When you heat water, impurities are left behind and it changes to a subtler form — that of vapour. Similarly when a being gives himself pain and generates the heat of tapa, the body and senses get purified and he/she becomes entitled for subtler / higher dimensions.

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