Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 798

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 17 The Yog of Threefold Faith देवद्विजगुरुप्राज्ञपूजनं शौचमार्जवम् । ब्रह्राचर्यमहिंसा च शारीरं तप उच्यते ॥14॥ ’’Adoration of God, the twice-born, the teacher-preceptor, and of the learned, along with having the qualities of innocence, uprightness, chastity, and disinclination to violence-are said to be penance of the body.’’ ] The body ever strays towards its desires. So chastening it to make it abide by the predisposition of the Soul is physical penance.