Lila Yoga

Concepts

Satya

satya

Truthfulness, the second yama. Quoted in class as speaking and living your truth.

The second restraint is truthfulness, and the Sutras attach a striking promise to it:

As soon as he is grounded in abstinence from falsehood, actions and consequences depend upon him.
YS 2.36tr. James Haughton Woods, 1914
The original Sanskrit

satyapratiṣṭhāyāṃ kriyāphalāśrayatvam

A person grounded in truth stops needing to force outcomes; word and result begin to line up. The claim is less mystical than it sounds: someone whose speech is fully reliable moves through the world with unusual weight.