Exhausting or Violating Tapas
One may exhaust all the merit or virtuous credit one has earned through tapas if one indulges in actions contrary to the principles and discipline of tapas, such as indulging in sense pleasures, or committing a sin or a crime.
Tapas may be violated if an outside influence or the tapasvin distracts himself or herself, successfully causing a break in the spiritual concentration or impurifying the environment in which the tapas is conducted.
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