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Updated: July 24, 2025
Sambhrama here means, probably, joy, or that gratification which shows itself in horripilation. It may also mean alacrity. Upavasa here, as explained by the commentator, is used for Indriyajaya or subjugation of the senses. He who takes his meals at the proper hours is said to observe fasts.
415. i.e., that fast which mortifies the body is not to be regarded as equivalent to penance. True penance is something else. An observer of such a fast is not to be regarded as an ascetic. Such fasts, again, are sinful instead of being meritorious. By Upavasa in the second line is meant abstention from food between the two prescribed hours for eating, and not that fast which mortifies the body.
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