At the same time, we must acknowledge the complexities of our contemporary society, which make it necessary to appropriately adapt the moral standards originally designed for the conditions of pre-modern India.
Thus, it seems appropriate for contemporary yoga Teachers to endeavor to conduct their lives in consonance with yoga s moral principles, particularly because Teachers have a great responsibility toward their students and should be expected to reflect the high moral standards espoused in yoga. In other key scriptures of yoga, further moral principles are mentioned, including kindness, compassion, generosity, patience, helpfulness, forgiveness, purity, and so on.Ģ All these are virtues that we connect with a good character and that are demonstrated to a superlative degree in the lives of the great masters of yoga. According to Patanjali s yoga -S tra, this practice category is composed of the following five virtues: nonharming (ahims ), truthfulness (satya), nonstealing (asteya), chastity (brahmacarya), and greedlessness (aparigraha).
Some of these standards, known in Sanskrit as yamas or disciplines, are encoded in the first limb of Patanjali s eightfold path. 1 Ethical Guidelines for yoga Teachers by Georg Feuerstein, As an integrated way of life, yoga includes moral standards (traditionally called virtues ) that any reasonable human being would find in principle acceptable.
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