Yama

1.Yama

The five Yamas are considered codes of restraint, abstinences, self-regulations, and involve our relationship with the external world and other people. They are commonsense guidelines for leading a healthier, happier life for bringing spiritual awareness into a social context.

There are many interpretation of and opinions about the Yam. But finally the Yam as described in Patanjali’s Yogsutra are only five which are great universal values.

Ahimsa	- Non-violence, non-harming, non-injury
Satya	– Truthfulness, honesty
Asteya	- Non-stealing, abstention from theft
Brahmacharya	-Celibacy, Continence, practicing the presence of God, walking in awareness of the highest reality remembering the divine.
Aparigraha	- Non-covetousness, non-possessiveness, non-holding through senses, non-greed, non-grasping, non-indulgence, non-acquisitiveness.

Yoga and Values