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7. Daya: compassion; conquering callous, cruel and insensitive feelings toward all beings.

8. Arjava: honesty, straightforwardness, renouncing deception and wrongdoing.

9. Mitahara: moderate appetite, neither eating too much nor too little; nor consuming meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.

10. Shaucha: purity, avoidance of impurity in body, mind and speech. (Note: Patanjali’s Yog Sutras list Shaucha as the first of the Niyamas.)

Whereas, In the Yog Sutras of Patanjali, he has the following five yamas comprise the first limb of the eight limbs of Raja Yog. They are stated in the Sadhana Pada Verse 30 as:

1. Ahimsa: non-violence, inflicting no injury or harm to others or even to one’s own self, it goes as far as nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

2. Satya: benevolent truth, absence of falsehood, non-illusion; truth in word and thought.

3. Asteya: non-covetousness, to the extent that one should not even desire something that is not his own; non-stealing.

4. Brahmacharya: spiritual advancement by education and training, responsible behavior with respect to our goal of moving toward the truth. It suggests that we should form relationships that foster our understanding of the highest truths. “Practicing brahmacharya means that we use our sexual energy to regenerate our connection to our spiritual self. It also means that we don’t use this energy in any way that might harm others.” Some traditions associate brahmacharya with celibacy. Abstinence, particularly, in the case of sexual activity.