Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c11.s6.38

c11.s6.38

A start is made with the statement that it is the *Chitta* alone which is *Saṁsāra* (*Maitreyī. Up.*, i, 5). Again: "What-ever his *chitta* thinks, of that nature a man becomes" [ib.]. Further: "If his *chitta* is so fixed on Brahman as it is on things of the world, who would not then be freed from bondage?" [ib., i, 7]. This means that the process of Yoga is *chittavṛitti-nirodha*, as defined by Patañjali, to detach the mind from the objects of senses so as to inhibit all its creative ideations and concentrate it on God.