Minoru Hara
The word tapas, derived from the root tap ‘to generate heat’, is generally recognised in the sense of some prescribed act of afflicting the physical body, senses and mind, in order to destroy desire (tapah krcchradikaram; vaidham klesa-janakam karma; kamanasanam tapah; etc.). Professor Minoru Hara, has taken up for study this spiritual subject in his paper ‘Tapas in the Bhagavadgita’. While analysing the contents of the verses thereof the ...