Questions tagged [tapasya]
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Can one learn to fight by doing tapasya? Is there any proof that tapasya will actually work?
In the Mahabharata and Ramayana, there are many incidents in which people performed tapasya and obtained boons. Like Arjuna doing tapasya and obtaining something from Shiva. Once Arjuna and Krishna did tapasya in the night and they obtained boon…
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How to do penance?
In Treta Yuga and other yugas there were several powerful people who became powerful after doing tapasya. As per the scientists, you can live 10 days without eating and drinking. Meanwhile Gandhi ji has survived 21 days without drinking water and…
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Why does world start to fall apart and burn because of one's tapasya?
Why does world start to fall apart and burn when one does intense tapasya? For instance,there's a story of Succhi in Yoga Vasistha who continues intense tapas for thousands of years so that Bhagawan Indra starts noticing her when the world starts to…
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Can a person eat food and sleep while doing Tapasya?
If a person is doing Tapasya , Can he eat food or he should be constantly be doing Tapasya ? I think a normal person will die if he does Tapasya constantly as he would require food , some rest ,sleep in between .
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Should Tapasya be done only in Himalayas ? Which place it should be done?
Is Tapasya to be done only in Himalayas ? Is there any such scriptural injunction ?
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