Niyamas - Rules of Personal Behavior


Live life on a need-to-know basis,
abandoning regret about the past or concern for the future.
All suffering results from resistance to the vicissitudes of life.
Salvation comes from surrendering to everything exactly as it is.

The Niyamas are as follows:

  • Samtosha - Contentment
  • Shaucha - Purity
  • Svadhyaya - Self-Study
  • Tapas - Self-Discipline
  • Ishvara pranidhana - Surrender To God