Verses on Sāṃkhya 24.5

24.5

tatra yā sthāvarajaṅgamānāṃ bhūtānāṃ vāṅmanaḥkāyakarmabhir adrohatā sā ahiṃsā | tathā yad bhūtahitam atyantaṃ dṛṣṭaśrutānumitivijñāteṣv artheṣu yathāntaḥkaraṇapratyayopasthitaṃ tathaiva indriyāṇi avilupya vañcanābhrāntipratipattibandhyatāvirahitavāguccāraṇaṃ tat satyam | tathā yat sambhrameṣv anyeṣu vātyantikeṣu prayojaneṣu sve sve sthāne samatvād grahaṇasyoparamas tad asteyam | tathā strīpuruṣasaṃyoge parasparaliṅgasaṃyoge śabdasparśarasarūpagandheṣu yaḥ saṅgavyudāsaḥ śrotādyuparatiḥ asaṅkalpaś ca manasa uparatiḥ so 'ṣṭāṅgaṃ brahmacaryam | evaṃ hy āhuḥ saṃyogaśabdasparśarasarūpagandhasaṅkalpasmṛtidharmaphalatyāgādyaṣṭāṅgaṃ brahmacaryam iti | anyac ca | brahmabījaṃ retas tac carati na muñcatīti brahmacārī | brahma vedaṃ vā guruṇā pradattaṃ caratīti | brahmā svayambhūs tasyāyaṃ daṇḍakamaṇḍaludhāraṇādirūpa ākāro brahmavac caratīti vā | evam arjanakrayavikrayādikalpanābhedānām anupādānaṃ sarvathā sarvasyāsvīkaraṇam aparigrahaḥ | iti pañca yamāḥ | yaś cendriyāṇām antaḥkaraṇoparamas tac chaucaṃ bāhyaṃ mṛjjalādinā |

Among them, non-violence is non-injury toward stationary and moving living beings through actions of speech, mind, and body. Likewise, truthfulness is speech that is supremely beneficial to living beings, uttered in accordance with how objects known through perception, testimony, and inference are presented as cognitive contents in the internal instrument, without impairing the sense faculties, and devoid of deceit, delusion, erroneous comprehension, or futility. Likewise, non-stealing is desisting from taking [another's property], even in commotions or other urgent circumstances, out of equanimity regarding each item remaining in its proper place. Likewise, celibacy has eight limbs: the cessation of attachment to speech, touch, form, taste, and smell during union between woman and man, that is, in the physical contact of each other's marks of sex; the cessation of the auditory and other faculties [therein]; and non-volition, that is, the cessation of the mind. For they say: "Celibacy has eight limbs, beginning with the renunciation of union, sound, touch, taste, form, smell, intention, memory, and the results of virtuous deeds." Moreover: the seed of brahman is semen; one who carries (carati) that, namely, does not emit it, is a celibate (brahmacārin). Or, one who practices (carati) the Veda or sacred learning (brahman) imparted by the teacher. Or, Brahmā is the self-existent, and this form, consisting of carrying a staff, water-pot, etc., is his; one who behaves (carati) like Brahmā [is a celibate]. Thus, non-possession is the non-acceptance of acquisitions, purchases, sales, and other distinct arrangements—the complete non-appropriation of everything. These are the five restraints. And the cessation of the sense faculties and internal instrument is cleanliness; external [cleanliness is] with earth, water, and the like.