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GENERAL SURVEY (i) ahimsa (not killing or injuring), (ii) truthfulness, (iii) non-stealing, (iv) sexual abstinence, and (v) avoidance of avarice, that is of worldly goods
Niyama signifies. (i) cleanliness, (ii) contentment, (iii) asceticism, (iv) study, and
(v) devotion
Asana is posture for meditation, and prândyama, regulation of breath; but pratyahara signifies the annihilation of the senses, consequent on the state of catalepsy to be induced by practice. Of the remaining limbs, dhårnå is mental concentration, dhyana, meditation or contemplation, and samadhi, the culmination of them all in an ecstatic trance.
Buddhism was originally an Indian religion, though It is now extinct in India. It was founded some twothousand five hundred years ago by a man who subsequently came to be known as Buddha. Buddha's teaching comprises the sponteneity of the world, that is a denial of its creation as well as of a creator, and nonpermanence of things, including the soul, Nirvana is the extinction of the will to be which is the cause of transmigration. Buddha's description of transmigration has the merit of novelty and is altogether unique. There
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