Chitta and Nirodhah:
- Tam, Raj, and Sat: These three gunas are Tam, Raj, and Sat. The awareness and conscious manipulation of the three gunas are a powerful way to reduce stress, increase inner peace and lead one towards enlightenment.
- Transcending Tam inertia, fear and confusion will transcend from self-identity to self-knowledge.
- Transcending Raj will transcend from self-knowledge to self-awareness.
- By transcending Sat attribute we transcend self-awareness to self-realisation.
- Change The Focus: If we bring our focus on facts and reality we will understand that we are playing our role. Immediately we will be creating distance from the circumstances, people and from our role/identity.
- Our fluctuating mind is a combination of Mann, buddhi, chitta and ahamkara. Which will distract us from facts and reality. We become unconscious of ourselves and start reacting instead of responding.
- Change Your Focus to the Gaps – if you can consider that a desire has arisen and a desire has gone and you have remained in the gap and the desire has not disturbed you…
- Chitta and Nirodhah: Chitta means mind, nirodha means cessation – cessation of the mind. The most famous sutra of Patanjali is ‘Chitta vritti nirodha yoga’
- The mind can be in two states; one is the state full of waves, turmoil, thoughts… just as the lake is full of waves. The other state is: the lake is utterly silent, no waves; the lake is a mirror, serene, calm, quiet.
- The unmoving mind is the ultimate ecstasy. It is a state of absolute awareness but there is no object to the awareness. Awareness is there but not of something; it is non-objective awareness.
