What is the basic to all these Yogas is tapas (discipline). In the Bhagvad-Gitā Shri Krishna speaks about threefold tapas, the discipline of body, mind, and speech (Bhagvad-Gitā, 17:14-16). Tapas of the body signifies cleanliness, uprightness and continence. Speaking words that never give offence but are truthful and beneficial, and also recitation of scriptural texts, form austerity of speech. If we follow this rule we must examine our habits of speech and forgo useless and harmful words. Serenity, gentleness, silence, sense control and purity of heart – these constitute tapas of mind. All these disciplines are to be practised with steadfast faith and intensity. Moreover, there must be breadth of vision too. In spiritual life we need Śrī Kṛṣna’s system of renouncing the fruits of one’s actions, Śamkara’s path of direct self-analysis, Caitnya’s way of ecstatic love for God. We can also derive benefit from Buddha’s Eightfold Path, Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, and Mohammed’s concept of universal brotherhood. All these are steps that prepare the soul to realize the divine nature, and they have been stressed by the mystics of all religions. SWAMI YATISWARANANDA – Meditation and Spiritual Life – Ramakrishna Math, Bangalore India. Fourth Edition. 1998 p: 31
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