{"id":15014,"date":"2022-07-28T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T22:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/santosha-true-contentment-is-freedom-from-cravings\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:39:27","slug":"santosha-true-contentment-is-freedom-from-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/santosha-true-contentment-is-freedom-from-cravings\/","title":{"rendered":"Santosha: True Contentment is Freedom from Cravings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second niyama, or observance, in Patanjali\u2019s Yoga Sutra is <em>santosha<\/em> which is most often translated as contentment.  How can we cultivate contentment in our lives?  What prevents us from doing so? Listen as Sandra Anderson discusses this concept and how craving and gratitude are frequently the cause and antidote to discontent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio hio-blog-download-link__audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wisdom-library.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022_WL_SA__Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second niyama, or observance, in Patanjali\u2019s Yoga Sutra is santosha which is most often translated as contentment. How can we cultivate contentment in our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3780,"featured_media":15013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,171],"tags":[],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/hio.himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/24144718\/Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings.jpg",880,514,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/hio.himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/24144718\/Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/hio.himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/24144718\/Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings-300x175.jpg",300,175,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/hio.himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/24144718\/Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings-768x449.jpg",640,374,true],"large":["https:\/\/hio.himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/24144718\/Santosha-True-Contentment-is-Freedom-from-Cravings.jpg",640,374,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>The second niyama, or observance, in Patanjali\u2019s Yoga Sutra is santosha which is most often translated as contentment. How can we cultivate contentment in our lives? What prevents us from doing so? Listen as Sandra Anderson discusses this concept and how craving and gratitude are frequently the cause and antidote to discontent.<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/sacred-texts\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sacred Texts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/sacred-texts\/yoga-sutra\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Yoga Sutra<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Sandra","url":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/author\/sandra-5202158\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himalayaninstitute.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}