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11. తపము (Tapamu)
If you do not get into a stage of service to the Master early then you must perform austerities and penances, to come out of the clutches of sensuality.
Tapamu is neither a person performing penance on one leg nor a pious person sitting in ashram. Both can not be considered as Tapamu. Tapamu is a meditation on something, it is actually meditation.
Austerity word if we need to exactly apply the right word is Tapamu. Japamu means meditation. Austerity and Penance always comes together. We cannot differentiate both words Austerity and Japamu. We do Japamu, what is that we are doing? We are doing Ramchandra’s Japamu. In Japamu there is no heat producing element. Tapamu means it produces heat. There is no heat getting developed in Japamu, the matter of Tapamu is that it produces heat. When the horses are whipped, naturally they are all work with full vigor against that. When we are tying to control it, we may resist more, in that suppression, we may kill our efforts.
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