vritti

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.

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 .

Patanjali defines it in his second verse as chitta-vritti-nirodha , the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

The second line of the text tells you what the whole thing is about, and it is not the body. Yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah.

The second aphorism is the whole of classical yoga in four words. Yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah.

The single most famous definition of yoga in the whole tradition is the second aphorism of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras : yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah .

…tadvaita reading of Vedanta as it had been set out long before in the vritti , the ancient gloss, of a teacher named Bodhayana.

…ds, and it is three words long: योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः ॥ yogash citta-vritti-nirodhah.