Niyama (नियम niyama, `restraint`, `observance`, `rule`, `restriction`, (in abl.{huh|date=April 2013}) `certainly`, `necessarily`) generally denotes a duty or obligation adopted by a spiritual aspirant (or community of same), or prescribed by a guru or by scripture (notably, the niyamas of raja yoga). The semantic range above re...
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(from the article `yama`) The second stage, niyama (Sanskrit: `discipline`), in its ethical intent similar to yama, comprises five categories of observance: cleanliness, ... ...The first two stages are ethical preparations. They are yama (`restraint`), which denotes abstinence from injury (ahimsa), falsehood, stealin...
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rule; there are 5 rules described in the Ashtanga Yoga of Patanjali.
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The second step in Raja Yoga, observance, purity and contentment.
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ritual
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(Skr.) The imposing on oneself of good and kind habits, including bathing, eating clean food, steeling the body, contentedness, cheerfulness, study, and piety. -- K.F.L.
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one of five observances, composing one of the eight practices, or angas, which are cleanliness of mind and body, equanimity, temperance or tapas, self-appraisal, and attentiveness to God, who is conceived of as a completely free spirit.
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