explain detail of niyam
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i) AHIMSA: Broadly speaking, Ahimsa means non-violence. In other words, to treat all beings with love and without anger, hatred and injustice is AHIMSA. As hatred can not remove hatred, only love can win over hatred, jealousy, animosity, etc. It involves complete elimination of evil thoughts and enmity of all types. Ahimsa is linked with peace and progress but it does not mean weakness or non-action or laziness. One should practise Ahimsa, as far as possible.
(ii) SATYA: 'To speak of, write about, and believe in a thing as it really is' constitutes truth. In actual life, one should first establish reality, then accept and believe it and thereafter practise it in thought, word and action. One should not think, speak and act differently. However truth in daily life should be practices with caution and right understanding.
(iii) ASTEYA (Non - Stealing): One shoudl not take awat something unjustly, deceitfully or without permission of the rightful owner. In other words, one should be honest in one's all dealings.
(iv) BRAHMCHARYA (Celibacy): In common practice, it means observance of strict discipline in sexual indulgence. It also means a conduct, which leads to God. The observance of Brahmacharya enables a person to achieve control over mind and body. In short it involves absence of lust and practice of self control.
(v) APARIGRAHA (Non Greed): It means absence of a tendency and greed to acquire more and more of material possessions. One should limit one's desires and practise restraint in the use of daily requirements and avoid the use of objects of pleasure, as possible.
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