Does yama and niyama represent objective morality?
The principles of yama and niyama represent dynamic morality. Morality pertains to the relative world where everything is subject to continuous change. The goal of morality is provide human beings with that moral stamina which is needed to move towards an absolute and effort-free state of spiritual being where the dos and donts of morality come naturally and external imposition of moral principles are no longer needed. Hence morality is not a goal in itself but one of the means towards a supreme state of living. Prouts 10 moral principles are therefore not objective as they are not goals in themselves. For example, objective morality states: Do not steal, whereas an otherwise honest person may be ready to steal once his or her conditions have deteriorated much due to socio-economic exploitation. Rather, the principle of dynamic morality aims at rooting out the very tendency to steal by building the individual and collective in an integrated and wholesome way.
