Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.184

c16.184

**Process of Yoga in Outline: Meaning of Chitta, Vṛitti, and Saṁskāra.** As already stated, Yoga means the *nirodha* or inhibition of the *vṛittis* of *Chitta*. The *Vṛitti* is the reaction of Mind to Matter, of Subject to Object. This reaction is effected through the senses, the five senses of cognition and the five of action; those of Eye, Ear, Nose, Tongue, and Skin enabling vision, audition, smell, taste, and touch; and the organs of speech, hands, feet, evacuation, and generation. Through the operation of these two classes of organs, the Mind comes into contact with Matter and is transformed by it. This transformation of the Mind by which the Mind takes on the form of a material object in apprehending it is called *Vṛitti* (vishayākāreṇa chittasya pariṇāmaḥ = Vṛittiḥ).