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    satya

    Devanāgarī: सत्य Translation: truthful; honesty; sincere; genuine; actual Similar words:sat Opposite words:asat Related concepts:yama, ṛta

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 2: 30 , 36


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    Commentaries around

    “Viparyaya is merely an opinion,
    convincing in its rightness to exist.
    A flight of fancy, posing, as if a truth.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 8

    “Satya is about how we use truth
    rather than truth in and of itself.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 36

    “Even though Yoga talks about the possibility of
    a state of being expressing motiveless action,
    for the rest of us there is always an ulterior motive.
    The issue is what it truly is, rather than just whether it
    had what we believed as a white, grey or black intention.
    Also, whether this intention is what we wanted to believe,
    or is there another truth lurking within our sense of right?
    Thus, the outcome may well differ from what we believed.
    However, as many of our motives fall within the grey spectrum,
    a deeper introspection into the reality of intention is important.
    To at least minimise Viparyaya, existing as a flight of fancy, or
    posing as if a truth convincing in its rightness to exist, when in
    reality, merely an opinion, even if not its deeper partner Avidyā.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 7

    “The idea behind Yama and Niyama is the attitude we have to the inside and outside.
    If I don’t know what is true there is no question of telling the truth.
    However, there is the intention, because one day it may become a reality.
    Even though some of these things are not there in the beginning,
    if the intention is sincere then one day it will become an action
    if conditions and our psychological state change.
    Yama as telling the truth also means discretion.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “If I don’t know what is true,
    there is no question of telling the truth.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

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