Chitta

We incorporate the functions of both under the rubric of one word – "chitta" in Sanskrit or "sem" in Tibetan – and include as well in the scope of its meaning all sense perception, such as seeing, hearing, smelling and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The definition that the ancient Indian yogi-sage Patanjali gave of yoga (the supreme union of absolute understanding) was this: "Yogas chitta vritti nirodha." ❋ Unknown (2010)

This aligns with the second of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: yogas chitta vritti nirodhah -- the purpose of yoga is to calm the fluctuations of the mind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you subscribe to yogas chitta vritti nirodhah, then loud verbal music increases the fluctuations of the mind-stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sri Thira-chitta —Probably intended forSthira-chitta, “the firm or steady minded.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

And consider this: the essence of yoga is the stilling of the chaos that otherwise comprises the mind (or as it is written in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, a sacred text that works as a sort of "user manual" for the practicing yogi, "yogas chitta vritti nirodiha"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

These psycho-physical exercises aim to achieve the following goals: purify the nerve channels which interlink the memory base (chitta), the manas (seat of emotions and feelings), discriminating intellect (buddhi), and intuitive wisdom (prajna). ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

The activity of the mind must cease, the chitta be purified, a silence fall upon the restlessness of Prakriti, then in that calm, in that voiceless stillness illumination comes upon the mind, error begins to fall away and, so long as desire does not stir again, clarity establishes itself in the higher stratum of the consciousness compelling peace and joy in the lower. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

This section is called pavakadhyayanam, meaning chitta-sodhakadhyayanam, that is, the lesson which, when read and mastered, is to lead to the cleansing of the heart. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Dana-yajna kriya phalam is chitta suddhi of purity or heart; antarena is equivalent to vina; anujananti governs Brahmanyam understood. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

These may lead to chitta-suddhi or the cleansing of the heart, which, when attained, leads to knowledge of Him or the Soul or to ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Then come the ten senses of action and knowledge; the five breaths; mind, understanding, consciousness, and chitta: these form ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

"It will be better for Sahib to sit on a cow than to lie on a chitta" ❋ Unknown (1861)

Kalamandalam Rajasekharan breathed life into this Lalitha in the Thekkan chitta style of Kathakali. ❋ Unknown (2009)