ASTEYA- NON STEALING

We don’t imagine ourselves to be thieves. There’s not a “swag bag” on our backs, stuffed with the family silver from the house down the road. We’re not holding up banks, or pick-pocketing on city streets. Yet, Asteya, the third of the Yamas and Niyamas in the eight-limbed path of yoga (Yogasutra's Patanjali), reminds us that we are always taking. From the minute we are born into the world—air, food, wood, sunlight, water, help from others—we are on the receiving end of the bounty around us. Asteya is the friend who taps us on the shoulder and says, “You must return what you take.”

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