Śamādisatka

By Swami Harshananda

Śamādiṣatka literally means ‘the group of six disciplines’ starting with śama’.

This is the third of the four spiritual disciplines listed under sādhanācatuṣṭaya. It consists of the following six steps:

1. Śama - tranquility
2. Dama - self-control
3. Uparati - cessation of external sense-organs from the pursuit of sense-objects
4. Titikṣā - forbearance
5. Śraddhā - faith
6. Samādhāna - concentration

References

• The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore