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Niyama: Śauca (शौच)
By Lucia Yess The first niyama in Patanjali's text is Śauca, also spelled Saucha or Shaucha. It represent purity and cleanliness. When you hear those two words what comes to mind? Perhaps a shower, brushing your teeth, honest thoughts and words. Of course this...
Yama: Aparigraha (अपरिग्रहः )
non-avarice, non-possessiveness
Yama: Brahmacharya ( ब्रह्मचर्य )
celibacy, non-cheating on one's partner
Yama: Asteya (अस्तेय )
non-stealing
Yama: Satya ( सत्य )
truthfulness, non-falsehood
Yama: Ahimsa (अहिंसा)
By Lucia Yess Ahmisa is the first Yama in Patañjali's Yoga Sutras. Ahimsa is non-violence. As a living being we are apart of a union with other living things. So the thought with this yama is that when you harm another you are hurting yourself. This Karma, of...