Yoga Objectives

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 5 years before Jul 04, 2017

MiBeloved 5 years ago

Yogah cittavritti nirodhah means that a proficiency in yoga practice is denoted by the ability to stop the mento-emotional force to operate impulsively. The convention of this existence is that the intellect (buddhi) operates on its own as it is goaded by the sensual inputs and memory.

When a yogi can shut down this auto system and implement absolute control over the mental and emotional fluctuations, he or she is said to have accomplished yoga.

This includes the kundalini because it is the main psychic system which goads the buddhi to visualize. Kundalini is independent and wants to maintain its autonomy over the psyche. Thus the self has to come to terms with it, to make it submissive to the long ranged interest of the psyche.

Kundalini or the life force psycho-physical mechanism and buddhi or the intellect (the analytical part of the mind) are in a conspiracy to keep the self under their joint control,

Yogah cittavritti nirodhah is the statement about shattering the authority of the intellect so that even the kundalini cannot execute impulsive actions.

Of course we enjoy some of these actions, so it is not easy to clamp down on something if you are getting a pleasure from it.