yama
यम yamaEthical restraints (such as non-violence and truthfulness), the first of the eight limbs of Patanjali's yoga.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
They are stages and supports at once, and they run in this order. Yama , the restraints (2.30).
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
They are, in order: yama , the ethical restraints, and niyama , the observances; asana , steady posture; pranayama , the regulation of the breath; pratyahara , the withdrawal of the senses; and then the inner t…
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…nd fixed-attention and contemplation and concentration." In Sanskrit: yama and niyama (ethical restraints and observances), asana (posture), pranayama (breath regulation), pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses),…
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
The hells, the narakas ruled by Yama, are a separate register, a set of punitive realms where karmic debts are paid.
- How many gods does Hinduism have? Deities
To what is One, sages give many a title, they call it Agni, Yama, Matarishvan." The Sanskrit is ekam sad vipra bahudha vadanti : "the truth is one; the wise speak of it in many ways." Here, in the earliest scri…
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
To what is One, sages give many a title: they call it Agni, Yama, Matarishvan." Ekam sat vipra bahudha vadanti.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
The sage Yama, teaching a boy named Nachiketas about the Self, draws a chariot.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
The Harita Dharmasutra and the Yama Smriti divide women into brahmavadini , who take upanayana at eight and study the Veda, and sadyovadhu , who marry directly with a nominal initiation at the wedding.