satya
सत्य satyaTruthfulness; one of the yamas.
Where this term appears
- Devas and Asuras Deities
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao, annotating the passage, quotes the Sanskritist Pandit Satya Vrat calling it a case of etymology by sound-resemblance, guided by similarity of sound "more than anything else".
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The upper seven are bhūr, bhuvaḥ, svar, mahar, janar, tapar, and satya , the last also called Brahmaloka, the creator's own realm.
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Five of them: ahimsa , non-harming; satya , truthfulness; asteya , non-stealing; brahmacharya , continence; aparigraha , non-grasping.
- Rita: The Cosmic Order at the Root of Dharma Essentials
Truth, satya , is the human being's share in rita, the way an individual life lines up with the order of the cosmos.
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
Sat means being, existence, reality, that which is; it is related to satya , truth.
- The Char Dham Temples
It assigns each one an age of the world, a yuga : Badrinath to the Satya Yuga , Rameswaram to the Treta , Dwarka to the Dvapara , and Puri to the present Kali Yuga .
- The Four Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali Essentials
The four ages are named Satya, or Krita , the age that is done and whole; Treta ; Dvapara ; and Kali .
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…rm, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-grasping ( ahimsa-satya-asteya-brahmacharya-aparigraha , 2.30).