The Five Yamas (Restraints) of Ashtanga Yoga
In a real sense talking "yama" signifies the progressing and cleansing otherworldly power (ya) of Nature with which you can limit its misleading and backward force (mama) in the body to escape from daydream, mortality (passing) and servitude. The two powers (ya+ma) are parts of Maha Shakti just and act in Creation just as in the collections of the jivas as the moving powers of Maha Kala who shows in the Bhagavadgita and is every now and again referred to in the Upanishads as the Lord of Death (Yama). The backward powers keep the creatures (jivas) misled and bound, while the propelling powers haul them out of the soil of obliviousness and daydream and put them on the forward way towards light, insight and freedom. 1. A definitive reason for yamas is to control Death itself In the realm of Death, we are altogether Yamas (of Kalas) in the human bodies, eating up the world for satisfaction and satisfaction, and allowing our bodies slowly to rot and break up into Death to rehash ...