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5 Cards in this Set
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Shaucha
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Purification, Cleanliness
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• Involves maintaining cleanliness in body, mind, and environment.
• The deepest and most subtle aspect of Saucha is purity of thoughts and feelings. • You might be purifying your relationships, maybe letting go of some toxic people in your life to make room for something more pure |
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Santosha
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Contentment, Peacefulness, Modesty, Happiness
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• Feeling of being content with what we have, to live in this moment, to be present
• Santosha encompasses our mental activities such as study, our physical efforts, and even how we earn our living • It is about ourselves-what we have and how we feel about what has been given to us, it is about our whole outlook on life. Do we look at a cup as half empty or as half full? |
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Tapas
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Burning enthusiasm, Austerity, Discipline
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• Literally translates as “fire” or “heat”
• Tapas is the disciplined use of our energy, directing it to keep us on track so that we don’t waste our time and energy on superfluous or trivial matters • When we can generate an attitude of burning enthusiasm, the strength of our convictions generates a momentum that carries us forward, boring or unpleasant tasks can be transformed when we work with vigor and impulsion |
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Svadhyaya
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Introspective self-study, Spiritual study
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• The word Svadhyaya literally means “to get close to something” – It means to get close to yourself, that is, to study yourself
• One focus of this Niyama is learning from our own lives, we are our own teachers and our lessons are everywhere • How does Svadhyaya show up for you in your life? What are you studying? How do you study? Who is your teacher? Is study a part of your everyday life? |
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Ishwara Pranidhana
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surrender, offering of one’s life to the Divine Spirit
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• Carry out all our actions, spoken, or unspoken, without desiring their fruit, and offering them to the Divine Spirit
• Believing that we have done all that we can and then trusting that things will work out • When we sit in meditation we are practicing surrender |
