Sleep Vritti Elimination

Of the five chittavrittis listed by Patanjali, the most elusive and hardest to perceive is the sleep one. What the sleep impulse is eliminated, meditation reaches a new level of very penetrating insight and vision of things which before were completely non-existent.

Who cares what method is used to eliminate the sleep operation? However I used the pranayama breath infusion process and got success in that way. Thus I recommend that but if some else has some other effective method, that is all the better in my opinion.

The five vrittis listed by Patanjali Mahayogin are:

·        Right Analysis

·        Wrong Analysis

·        Imagination

·        Memory

·        Sleep

Sleep is the only one which is not an operation of the intellect analytical orb but sleep affects the orb for sure.

The other four are directly or supplementary concerned with the orb such that Right Analysis, Wrong Analysis and Imagination are directly constructed by the orb. While memory takes help from the orb for illustration purposes.

These can be dealt with effectively by breath infusion, where the result of the practice is that the fifth stage of yoga, pratyahar sensual energy withdrawal, is achieved which entails the shutdown of those four operations.

The sleep vritti however is elusive. It is usually parked near the base of the spine on the inside of the body but not in the spine. This energy is collected from each part of the body and stored there. It is then concentrated and used to put the physical and subtle bodies to sleep.

It is a useful energy even though Patanjali condemned it for meditation purposes. During meditation it is imperative that this energy not express its influence, otherwise the yogi will have a lower level of perception. His (her) insight will be less. It will be near impossible to discern super-subtle realities.

In working with this under the direction of Srila Yogeshwarananda, he showed me that this sleep vritti is the culprit (Yogesh’s term) which cause the core-self to be reduced to being a mere observer and not a director in the psyche, such that the core-self is entertained to its peril by the analytical orb’s creations of thoughts, ideas and images.

When the sleep vritti is eliminate during a meditation session, the core-self finds itself to be free from hypnosis. It can confront the analytical orb and command it to cease thought operations. It can also stare down the orb and take control of the area of the mind where the orb usually displays its hypnotizing theatrics.