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The ten niyamas mentioned by those proficient in the knowledge of yoga are: Tapa, patience, belief in God, charity, adoration of God, hearing discourses on the principles of religion, shame, intellect, Tapa and Yajña.

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good Hindu would find interesting. That includes more than temple information and why X slocka is good. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's religious curiosity.

Off-Topic: Like any library, Hindu Media Wiki shares great information, but does not offer personalized advice, and does not take the place of seeking such advice from any Acharya, Pundit, astrologer, Guru or other trustworthy Counselor.

In Submissions

Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important.

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.

If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.

Please submit the canonical(original) URL. Avoid link shorteners.

If the title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 4 main tradition in Vaishnavism."

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

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Please don't delete and repost the same story. Deletion is for things that shouldn't have been submitted in the first place.

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In Comments

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Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.