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used for restraint or curse was called hot tejoleshya. From this angle, the sensations of pleasure and pain, willingness and reluctance, blessing and curse, are all consequences of energy or electricity. Nothing can be accomplished without electricity. Just as electricity creates for itself a magnetic field, similarly tejoleshya creates its own magnetic field. Its electrical current helps in the formation of an individual's personality, and it is also a factor in other attainments.
Generally, every individual more or less gathers electricity. The greater amount of electricity increases one's capacity and only a capable person has the power to bless or to curse. There are three principal factors in the attainment of tejolabdhi-atapana (exposure to the sun), endurance and penance. Atapana (exposure to the sun) is in a way a prelude to the acquisition of solar energy. Keeping in view the posture or sitting position in which the greatest amount of solar energy may be collected, it is ordained that earnest sadhaks should perform atapana in a standing position. Rarely does one come across any rule for observing disciplines in a recumbent position. A comprehensive discussion about it occurs in Brihatkalpa Bhasya.
Endurance is an element which develops tejas, electricity. A sadhak without any capacity for tolerance becomes unsteady or loses his equilibrium when faced with physical or psychological adversities. Although every man is naturally endowed with a tejas-sharir (electric generator), it mostly remains dormant in the body. Electricity produced by austerities alone has utility in conduct. Tolerance or endurance is a kind of austerity. Among the ten commandments for the wandering monks, endurance or tolerance is the first. In order to master tejolabdhi, the acquisition of tolerance is a must.
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