The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 246

p. 246

निष्कल्मषं तपस्त्वेतत्केवलं परिचक्षते ।

In plain words

Austerity with no stain in it, nothing mixed in — that, and only that, is what they call tapas.

Close to the Sanskrit

But this stainless, unmixed austerity — this alone they declare to be austerity.