Yama & Niyama simple

Question 1

Ahimsa

Answer 1

Yama
Non-violence
Compassion. A positive expression of universal love and compassion. Not just non-doing. Being established in ahimsa means understanding and experiencing the divine essence that pervades all creation. And with that vision treating everything with gentleness and conscious awareness. “Whenever I walk I feel like I’m stepping on the breast of my mother” GuruDev. Imagine that kind of awareness. He saw the whole earth as mother earth and treated every squareinch with tenderness and gentleness.

Inside Yama & Niyama with Swami Karunananda

Question 2

2 signs of a beginner

Answer 2

Enthusiasm and cluelessness, for example towards your own capacity.

Question 3

Śauca

Answer 3

Niyama: purity, clearness of mind, speech and body

Question 4

Santoṣa

Answer 4

Niyama: : contentment, acceptance of others and of one’s circumstances as they are, optimism for self

Question 5

Tapas

Answer 5

Niyama: austerity, self-discipline, persistent meditation, perseverance

Question 6

Svādhyāya

Answer 6

Niyama: study of self, self-reflection, introspection of self’s thoughts, speeches and actions

Question 7

Īśvarapraṇidhāna

Answer 7

Niyama: contemplation of the Ishvara (God/Supreme Being, Brahman, True Self, Unchanging Reality), attunement to the supreme consciousness