yama

yama - The first limb of Patanjali's eight limbed yoga system; restraints or abstentions including nonviolence, non-lying, non-misuse of sex energy, non-possessiveness; these restraints have the purpose of bringing the Yogi or Yogini into a harmonious relationship with Nature and with all living beings.

Vaidya Vasant Lad, Textbook of Ayurveda Volume 1, 2001: p. 314

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