chitta
चित्त cittaThe mind-field: thought, memory, and ego taken together. In Patanjali's yoga, it is the churning apparatus whose movements yoga aims to still.
Where this term appears
- Is yoga Hindu? Is it a religion? Yoga
Patanjali's second sutra gives the classic definition: yogah chitta-vritti-nirodhah , "yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind." The whole system is a technology of consciousness.
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
What the text means by "yoga" The second aphorism of the first chapter gives the definition the whole system rests on. Yoga Sutras 1.2: yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah .
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
…vekananda translates 2.52: "By that, the covering to the light of the chitta is attenuated." The chitta is the mind-stuff, and its covering is the obscuration that keeps the inner light dim.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
Patanjali defines it in his second verse as chitta-vritti-nirodha , the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
The second line of the text tells you what the whole thing is about, and it is not the body. Yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
The second aphorism is the whole of classical yoga in four words. Yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
… whole feeling of being an ego adrift in a world of not-me. Fourth is chitta , the deepest layer, the storehouse.
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
aura devata chitta na dharai, hanumata sei sarba sukha karai — One need hold no other god in mind; serving Hanuman brings every happiness.