nirodha
निरोध nirodhaRestraint, stilling, or cessation, specifically of the mind's fluctuations. The key word in the foundational definition yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
A vritti is a fluctuation, a wave that moves across that field. Nirodha is the stilling, the restraint.
- 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 definition that changes everything The whole school turns on its second line, and it repays slow reading. Yoga is chitta-vritti-nirodha .
- What is Yoga? Yoga
Vritti is a fluctuation, a wave, a turning. Nirodha is restraint, stilling, cessation.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
The antahkarana ('inner instrument') is the tradition's technical name for the mind considered as the internal organ of knowing and acting, as opposed to the outer…
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
A vritti is a movement, a modification, a wave: any thought, perception, feeling or mental state whatsoever, any way the mind takes a shape. Nirodha is their restraint, cessation, stilling.
- Yoga was never about flexibility Journal
Yoga is the nirodha , the stilling, of the vrittis , the turnings, of the chitta , the mind.