17 Self-restraints under Samyam

Samyam consists of 17 self-restraints: 

1. Control over five senses, 
2. Practice of five great vows (Mahä-Vrata: nonviolence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possession)
3. Victory over four passions (anger, ego, deceit and greed) 
4. Control of activities of body, mind and speech
5. Another definition also requires 17 self-restraints:
6. Complete ahimsä (non-hurting) of five immobile living beings (earth, water, fire, air and vegetation), two to four sensed living beings, and five sensed living beings; no attachments to non-living objects, carefulness in walking, talking, using of the necessities and use of places; and self-restraint of body, mind and speech