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This chapter contains the famous definitional verse (YS 1.2): "Yogaś citta-vritti-nirodhaḥ" ("Yoga is the restriction of the fluctuations of mindstuff"). [35] When the mind is stilled, the seer or real Self is revealed: 1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature. 1.4.
The concept of vritti is central to the main definition of yoga given in Sutra 1.2 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: "yogasch chitta vritti nirodha". I. K. Taimni translates this as: "Yoga is the silencing of the modifications of the mind". [1]
Swami Vivekananda translates the sutra as "Yoga is restraining (nirodhah) the mind-stuff (citta) from taking various forms (vrittis)." [4] When the mind is stilled, the seer or real Self is revealed: 1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature. 1.4.
In Samkhya and Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in yoga practice, those two states are conditions of mind (chitta), with the mind's outward-evolution expressions (pravritti) and the inward-involution expressions (nirvritti). Nirvritti is the involution stage where "Yoga is the control of thought waves in the mind" (Sutra 2, Samadhi Pada). [6]
yogas chitta vritti nirodhah – "Yoga is the calming down the fluctuations/patterns of mind" 1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature. 1.4. In other states there is assimilation (of the Seer) with the modifications (of the mind). [43] Yogācārabhūmi-Śāstra (Sravakabhumi), a Mahayana Buddhist Yogacara work
1.2. yogas chitta vritti nirodhah – "Yoga is the calming down the fluctuations/patterns of mind" 1.3. Then the Seer is established in his own essential and fundamental nature. 1.4. In other states there is assimilation (of the Seer) with the modifications (of the mind. Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 09:36, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
The name Vasistha in the title of the text refers to Rishi Vasistha. [13] The term Yoga in the text refers to the underlying Yogic theme in its stories and dialogues, and the term is used in a generic sense to include all forms of yoga in the pursuit of liberation, in the style of Bhagavad Gita.
Sama vritti (Sanskrit: समावृत्ति, romanized: samavritti) is a pranayama technique. [1] It involves equating the durations of inhalation ( puraka ), retention ( antara kumbhaka ), exhalation ( rechaka ) and second retention ( bahya kumbhaka ) before inhaling again.