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Why Tapas

Why Tapas

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1. WHAT IS TAPAS?

What is Tapas? 7

Three levels of Tapas 11

2. DEEPER INSIGHTS INTO TAPAS

Tapas is Intelligent Effort 12

Real Tapas is always Effortless 15

Tapas is Passion with Patience 17

Tapas is the courage to make mistakes 23

Tapas is dropping inner and outer Identities 25

Tapas is taking Responsibility for Consequences 29

Tapas purifies your body and mind 31

Tapas and powers 32

Tapas prepares you for the moment of Enlightenment 34

3. DISCOVERING YOU

Tapas: Getting Rid of All That is Not You! 37

Tapas is Finding You 40

Have the Right Idea About You 42

Falling in Tune 44

4. PRACTISING TAPAS

The Pain of Loneliness 47

Courage of Tapas 50

Shraddha and Tapas 54

Tapas: Leading you to the Highest Coherence 56

5. RESPONSIBILITY AND COMPLETION

Tapas and Possibility 58

TECHNIQUE: Identify your Patterns 62

TECHNIQUE: Complete with your Patterns 64

6. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON TAPAS

7. TAPAS: GLIMPSES FROM MY LIFE

My whole life was tapas 69

Ananda Tapas 70

My Experience of Enlightenment 73

Tapas to Overcome Death 76

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