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The tamasic austerity of self-injury

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श्रद्धया परया तप्तं तपस्तत्त्रिविधं नरैः ।अफलाकाङ्क्षिभिर्युक्तैः सात्त्विकं परिचक्षते ॥

This threefold askesis, done with a highest enlightened faith, with no desire for fruit, harmonised, is said to be sattwic.

Gītā 17·17

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in