shaucha
शौच shauchaPurity, inner and outer cleanliness; one of the niyamas.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Again five: shaucha , purity; santosha , contentment; tapas , austerity; svadhyaya , self-study; ishvara-pranidhana , surrender to the Lord.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…urity, contentment, austerity, self-study, and devotion to the Lord ( shaucha-santosha-tapah-svadhyaya-ishvara-pranidhana , 2.32).
- The reversal Treatise
The Dharmashastra is a discipline of shaucha , outer purity, the careful management of substances and contacts.
- The sacred transgression Treatise
Shaucha , outer purity, is the discipline of substances and contacts that the Dharmashastra codifies, and the tradition does not deny its value for ordinary life.
- The word for what is left over Treatise
The Dharmashastra, the vast body of texts on law and right conduct, treats shaucha , purity, as a daily discipline of the body, and within that discipline saliva sits very low.
- Why this form exists Treatise
To the guardians of the purity codes, for whom shaucha , external purity, was the daily armature of religious life, a cult built on the ucchishta was close to a contradiction in terms: pollution raised from a t…