Arjava

means straightness, sincerity, and harmony in one’s thought, words, and actions towards oneself and towards others. It is described in ancient Indian texts as “self-restraint from hypocrisy", and "the absence of hypocrisy”. It is included as one of several virtuous restraints in an individual's path to spirituality. The Maharashtrian poet Vāmana in Avigita, at xvi.1, posits is a form of honesty and purity in a person, and an essential virtue so that one may treat everyone equally, whether that other is one’s child, wife, relative, friend, a stranger, or someone hostile or oneself without any discrimination. It is listed as a virtue in the Indian Epics. ==Literature==

is one of the ten listed by Śāṇḍilya Upanishad, The other nine are: • (): nonviolence • (): truthfulness • (): not stealing • (): celibacy and not cheating on one’s spouse • (): forgiveness • (): fortitude • (): compassion The Mahābhārata, in book 12, chapter 60, lists (non-hypocrisy) as a virtue along with (non-anger), (forgiveness), and others. In chapter 278, the epic explains how and why hypocrisy arises, suggesting that it derives from the sin of covetousness, greed, and attachment to superficial possessions. Patanjali's treatise on Yoga lists only five , which includes non-covetousness and non-possessiveness ( and respectively), but does not include . ==See also==