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Updated: May 25, 2025
The high-souled Panchasikha, discarding both the opinion about knowledge and acts, regarded the third as the only means of Emancipation. If men leading the domestic mode of life be endued with Yama and Niyama, they become the equals of Sannyasins.
They constitute the path that leads to the self. 'That which has Brahman for its origin' implies the Vedas. Commentators differ about what is implied by the ten or the twelve. Nilakantha thinks that the ten mean the eight characteristics of Yoga, viz., Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, and Tarka and Vairagya.
Niyama or observance, defined as purification, contentment, mortification, recitation and devotion to the Lord. Purification is treated at great length in the later treatises on Haṭha-yoga under the name of Shaṭ-karma or sixfold work. It comprises not only ordinary ablutions but cleansing of the internal organs by such methods as taking in water by the nostrils and discharging it by the mouth.
"All that means nothing to me," I admitted simply. "No, it means nothing for me to tell you that I have learned Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dyhana and Samadhi! Yes, I was something of an adept once. I learned calm, meditation, contemplation, introspection, super-conscious reasoning how to cast my own mind to a distance, how to bring other minds close up to me.
Siva is both a resident of crematoria and of Varanasi. Or, the universe is displayed in thee. Probably, what is said here is that Mahadeva is the Pratyag Soul free from ignorance. By Niyama is meant purity both internal and external, contentedness, with whatever is got, penances, Vedic studies, meditation on the Deity, etc.
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