abhyasa
अभ्यास abhyāsaSteady, sustained practice maintained over a long time; with vairagya, one of the two means by which the Yoga Sutras say the mind is stilled.
Where this term appears
- Pratyahara: Withdrawing the Senses Yoga
…ali names at the very start of the text as the heart of all practice: abhyasa , steady repeated effort, and vairagya , dispassion, the loosening of the mind's appetite for its objects.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…o again and again: it comes about "through practice and dispassion" ( abhyasa-vairagyabhyam tan-nirodhah , 1.12), the sustained effort to hold the mind steady, and the deliberate loosening of the mind's thirst …