52 Quotes About Penance

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the path to liberation. However, there is no liberation without Knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan).

Indian life is not without conflicts, and without indian life, there is no moksha (ultimate liberation). On the extreme limits of these conflicts lies Moksha (liberation).

Renounce (tyaag) if it is in your prakruti (inherent nature). Do penance (tapa) if it is in your prakruti. Chant (japa) if it is in your prakruti. But except for the attainment of the Self, everything else is a waste.

Some mistakes require a price before freedom-The Penance (sequel to 'The Catalyst', coming soon)

The path of moksha (ultimate liberation) has to be understood. This study of the self, doing penance, doing chanting is being done by Pudgal (Complex of intake and output; body complex). What is the benefit of that? Any Action done without the main (root) vision being changed, causes karmic bondage.

The penance and renunciation that one is told to do is actually under the authority of the non-Self (parsatta). So how can that happen? Penance-renunciation, it is all a resultant effect of the non-Self (parparinaam). It is neither an effect of the Self (Swaparinaam) nor is it independent (swadhin).

What can be referred to as true internal penance? It is when the heart is actually burning within and One peacefully remains as the Knower-Seer of that.

To remain strong in the effect as the Self (Swaparinaam) such that, ‘This is an effect of the non-Self (parparinaam) and it is not My effect;’ that is known as penance (tapa).