Lila Yoga

Concepts

Asteya

asteya

Non-stealing, the third yama. Teachers often widen it to not taking what is not offered: time, credit, attention.

The third restraint, with the most cheerfully material promise in the whole list:

As soon as he is grounded in abstinence from theft, all jewels approach him.
YS 2.37tr. James Haughton Woods, 1914
The original Sanskrit

asteyapratiṣṭhāyāṃ sarvaratnopasthānam

All jewels approach him. Read it as poetry or as psychology: the person who has genuinely stopped grasping finds that enough keeps arriving.