Guest guest Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Thus Spake The Lord The sixth one is the flower of Thapas---Thapas pushpam. Thapas (penance) is not to give up your wife and children, go to a forest, put your head up and feet down; that is not thapas. When we think of real thapas we should abandon bad thoughts from our minds. The co-ordination of thought, word and deed is thapas. Whatever thoughts sprout in your mind, to utter them as word and to put them in practice as your work, that is thapas. It is in this context that it is said---Manas Ekam, Vachas Ekam, Karmanyekam Mahaathmaanaam---that one is a Mahaathma (great soul) who can co-ordinate his thought with his word and his word with his deed. Giving up bad thoughts from your mind will become sacrifice. That sacrifice will become yoga. But giving up one's property and one's wife and going to forest is not yoga. Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XV, Chapter 9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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