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 yamas or controls is necessary. The five are satya (truth-speaking, truth- willing, truth-doing, truth-thinking), ahimsa (non-injury, non-killing), aparigraha (non-robbing or grasping), asteya (non-stealing) and brahmacarya (sexual purity) which has in certain quarters been so rigid to exclude marriage and all association with women. The excessive practice of the virtues, as we shall call these five, had led to unsocial existence. Through these may be preferable to the license that has prevailed where these have not been practised, yet it seems they are excessive, and middle path is the right one. The golden mean seems to be when the last, the sexual life, is regulated and divinised rather than totally rejected or tabooed.
A sat-sang is one in which these virtues are practised normally. Any one who seeks the higher life has to get this discipline of the will and desire so as to be fit for the higher life. A sadhu is one who habitually lives according to these five vows or virtues (virtue seems to be derived from vrata).

































































































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