Tom Billinge
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“The term krátu, which is also related to tapas, is used in the Vedas to mean many things: victorious force, heroic strength and ardour, courage, delight in battle, power, strength, majesty, and intelligence. It essentially translates to “energy of the ardent warrior” and is used with regard to Indra in particular, the god who forced his way to heaven through tapas.”
― WarYoga
― WarYoga
“Sweat is rasa; while it cannot be transformed in the way that other bodily fluids can, it is the outward sign of transformation. Sweating is the first stage of creating the yogic body and allows the yogin to act like Prajāpati, purging the old body to create a new one. It is the result of tapas. The Vedic sacrificer also sweats to shed his old body in order to create a sacrificial body worthy of making the sacrifice. In Āyurveda, the kuṭī-praveśa treatment induces sweat in order to rejuvenate the body.”
― WarYoga
― WarYoga
“Everyone else is conquered by the body, but the body is conquered by yogīs, so they are not subject to the fruits of their actions, such as pain, pleasure, and the like. “When the yogī has conquered the senses, mind, intellect, desire, anger, and so forth, he has conquered everything. Nothing can trouble him. After the gross and other elements have risen in series, the body composed of its seven constituents is slowly burned by the fire of yoga.”
― WarYoga
― WarYoga








