niyama

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Listening to the sound of space and the voices of all the people I've ever read about who've lived out there, watching my skin turn brown, eating little, standing in the sand on one leg at the top of the dune in the wind, I was practicing santosha, the Yoga niyama (restraint) of contentment, imposing very little of my will on any given moment and yet freely choosing at every moment.

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  • Listening to the sound of space and the voices of all the people I've ever read about who've lived out there, watching my skin turn brown, eating little, standing in the sand on one leg at the top of the dune in the wind, I was practicing santosha, the Yoga niyama (restraint) of contentment, imposing very little of my will on any given moment and yet freely choosing at every moment. —  Precious Metal: the blog
  • In chocolatier 2 secret ingredients how do I make more money? any fiction or fandom sites with stories dedicated to suikoden besides fanfiction. net? jambo sana man. niyama niyama. kenya and sa. can any one plz tell me where to download hercules game free.? en Español —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • These are yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana, dhyana & samadhi. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In spite of these variant forms they are all however of one kind, namely that of the inference of the probandum (_sвdhya_) by virtue of the unconditional and invariable concomitance of the hetu, called the vyвpti-niyama. —  A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
  • In the niyama-vidhi that which is ordered is already known as possible but only as an alternative, and the vidhi insists upon one of these methods as the only one. —  A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1
 

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