Laghu Sinhnishkreedit Tapp is a rigorous penance which resembles the gait of a lion. Just as a lion walks few steps ahead and then carefully withdraws one step backward before going ahead again, a sadhak practices penance in a similar manner through a series of fasts.

A sadhak practices 154 fasts in a period of 187 days. During these fasts, he does not eat any food. He drinks only boiled water from sunrise to sunset.The series of fasts is as follows:1 fast – parna – 2 fasts – parna – 3 fasts – parna – 2 fasts – parna – 4 fasts – parna – 3 fasts … this forward-backward system of fasts continues in an ascending order till 9 fasts and then the same way in a descending order.

Great souls such as Parmatma Mallinath’s soul in the previous birth as King Mahabal; Queen Kaali of King Shrenik, and several other revered ascetics have practiced this penance in the past.