{"id":434,"date":"2014-03-30T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarunmendiratta.com\/hawan.net\/wp\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:08:06","slug":"asteya-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Asteya (March 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41984\">The topic for this month is\u00a0<strong>Asteya<\/strong>\u00a0(non-stealing). According to the Yoga Sutra, if you don\u2019t steal, good things will come to you. \u00a0So, why aren\u2019t the good things coming to us all the time; after all, we aren\u2019t thieves \u2013 not in traditional sense, at least. By the way, do we steal \u2013 even unintentionally? Before jumping to any conclusion, let\u2019s make sure we have a solid understanding of the term \u201cstealing\u201d as prescribed in Yoga Sutras. This month, kids will focus on the topic of non-stealing in real life.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41982\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41842\">The literal meaning of the word Asteya (non-stealing) is to not take anything that does not belong to you. In the traditional sense, a thieve is someone who steals something tangible \u2013 be it a small object like a pencil or big item like money\/car. But, can someone steal anything that is not material? Yes, in fact, there is a long list of non-physical \u201cthings\u201d that can be stolen, such as idea, time, peace, happiness, credit, unity, harmony etc.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41840\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41836\">Let\u2019s understand it with few real life examples. Say, three students are asked to do a group project. In this project, only two students do most of the work. Knowing that same grade will be given to all, the third student neither takes any initiative nor offers any help. On top of all, whenever the group meets, the third student distracts the other students with idle talks. In this case, the third student steals credit and time. Let\u2019s consider another scenario where a person stumbles upon someone\u2019s novel idea. Later, he presents that idea as his own. Because the fame, credit, and monetary benefits of the idea are taken away from the rightful owner, it is another case of theft.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41987\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41989\">There are many more real-life scenarios\/examples that one can relate to. Please work with the kids and use this opportunity to instill one of the core principles of the Hinduism.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41990\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41991\">Regards,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1412352931139_41992\">Harsh Mendiratta<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for this month is\u00a0Asteya\u00a0(non-stealing). According to the Yoga Sutra, if you don\u2019t steal, good things will come to you. \u00a0So, why aren\u2019t the good things coming to us all the time; after all, we aren\u2019t thieves \u2013 not in traditional sense, at least. By the way, do we steal \u2013 even unintentionally? Before jumping to any conclusion, let\u2019s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4","category-monthly-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}