{"id":798,"date":"2024-02-23T18:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=798"},"modified":"2024-02-23T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T18:49:19","slug":"niyama-and-santosha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/4-paths-of-yoga\/niyama-and-santosha\/","title":{"rendered":"Niyama and Santosha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\">\n<div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\">\n<p>Supreme happiness is obtained through contentment.<\/p>\n<p>The observances of yoga are the practice of internal and external purity, contentment, mortification, study of scriptures, and worship of God or self-surrender.<\/p>\n<p>You will find in\u00a0<em>Yoga Vasishtha<\/em> that Santosha, Santi, Vichara, and Satsanga are the four sentinels at the door of Moksha.<\/p>\n<p>If you have Santosha, the other three will come by themselves. Santosha, contentment, is one of the important virtues for an aspirant.<\/p>\n<p>Riches and poverty are not counted by the amount of wealth one keeps. A king, if coveting too many desires and wants more, is considered to be a beggar. A beggar, if is contented with what they have, is really a king.<\/p>\n<p>From contentment comes real happiness.<\/p>\n<p>If a person has no contentment, their mind will be always wandering. It will be impossible to do concentration and other Yogic practices. Therefore contentment should be developed by all aspirants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme happiness is obtained through contentment. The observances of yoga are the practice of internal and external purity, contentment, mortification, study of scriptures, and worship of God or self-surrender. You will find in\u00a0Yoga Vasishtha that Santosha, Santi, Vichara, and Satsanga are the four sentinels at the door of Moksha. If you have Santosha, the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20],"class_list":{"0":"post-798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-4-paths-of-yoga","8":"tag-swami-sivananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}