When men practise austerities of body, speech and mind, steadily “with no clinging attachment to, or anxiety for, the fruits thereof,” their tapas falls under the type: the Sattwic. The “good” are those integrated men who refuse to worry about the future, because they know that, in the harmony in nature, the “future is the resultant of the total past modified by the present. Since the perfection and efficiency of the PRESENT activities determine and command the FUTURE results, it is certainly un-intelligent to worry over the FUTURE and spoil the very quality of the PRESENT activities. Thus the “good,” desiring no fruit, but all the same practising, with great sincerity, the three-fold tapas as explained above, come to reap a large dividend from their austerities.

When tat, that; trividham, threefold-based on three factors; tapah, austerity, which is being discussed; is taptam, undertaken, practised; paraya, with supreme, with the highest; sraddhaya, faith, belief in God and the other world; naraih, by people, by its performers; aphala-akanksibhih, who do not hanker after results,who are devoid of desire for results; and yuktaih, who are self-controlled;-that austerity which is of this kind, the noble people paricaksate, speak of it; as sattvikam, born of sattva.