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	The Philosophy of Life by Swami Krishnananda
		The Vritti that pervades the object determines thus the perception of the empirical mode of the object, but does not illumine it, for the Vritti by itself is insentient.
		The knowledge which illuminates the perception is not a part of the mental Vritti, the function of Vritti-vyapti being merely to pervade the form of the object and cast that form in the mental mould.
		The function of a Vritti is to remove the Avarana (veil) that envelops the object and the Upahita-chaitanya (consciousness defined by an adjunct).
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /phil/phil_05a.html (2321 words)

	Vritti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vritti (plural: Vrittis), in the context of Hinduism and its yoga stream, is the name given to different tendencies which come to our mind without our conscious knowledge.
		As a word, vritti means vortex or circular activity with no beginning and no end.
		Muladhara: greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passion, and blissfulness in concentration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vritti (127 words)

	Yoga as a Universal Science by Swami Krishnananda
		The Vrittis, or the operations of the mind, are the way in which the individual beholds the world, or interprets things in general.
		These Vrittis, whether pain-giving or otherwise, are not only the way in which we look at things, but also the way in which we evaluate or interpret things.
		Now, Patanjali has made it clear that all these Vrittis are, after all, modifications of the mind in respect of a thing that is regarded as existing outside oneself in space and time, and with which a personal relationship is established.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /univ/univ_06.html (2458 words)

	The Philosophy of Life by Swami Krishnananda
		The object of a Vritti or a mental mode may either be an external object or an internal content, something outside the mode or the mode itself.
		Right perception is to be defined as the union of the Pramanachaitanya and the Vishayachaitanya in the case of a Vishaya or object which is fit to be known, or capable of being known, and wherein there is the spatial coexistence of the Pramanachaitanya and the Vishayachaitanya, together with the contemporaneity of the two.
		Though there is no second Vritti by which the Witness may know the object of internal cognition, it is associated with the Vritti by which the objects are known.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /phil/phil_05b.html (2550 words)

	Meditation Instructions
		In Sanskrit, the word "vritti" means whirlwind, and it is used to refer to this mental agitation.
		If the vrittis were completely mental, they might be difficult to recognize, as they are subtle.
		Or perhaps you realize that you're caught in a vritti only once during the whole meditation, and the rest of the time you were daydreaming, without realizing it.
	shfyoga.com /MattsYogaWebPage/taylorSutras.html (1016 words)

	Chinmaya Mission UK - Articles -- Articles By Mission Teachers --- Witness The Ego
		Vishaya meaning objects, vritti meaning thoughts that are connected with objects, that are connected with various people and situations, that are connected with various things inside and outside.
		Those vrittis that are expressed by others and those expressions create further vrittis in our mind which can give us comfort because we are already disturbed because of some-other negative remark.
		Vishaya is mithya, vritti is mithya, ego is mithya.
	www.chinmayauk.org /Articles/Articles%20By%20Mission%20Teachers/Swami%20Chidatmananda/1.htm (6073 words)

	Chapter 11
		Vritti or thought-wave is a modification of that mental substance.
		It is Vritti and identification (Tadatmya Sambandha) with the Vritti that causes attachment and bondage.
		The Antarmukha Vritti is the indrawing energy of the mind owing to increase in Sattva.
	www.starwon.com.au /~soham/MIND/mindchap11.htm (1125 words)

	The Vrittis
		The word vritti means 'a vortex', 'a circular activity which has no beginning and no end'.
		The fourth component of a vritti is memory or impressions which we have received and stored in our mind, and which become the guideline for our future expression and behaviour.
		In dharana yoga nidra, the vritti of sleep is brought under the control of the practitioner.
	www.yogamag.net /archives/1996/5sep96/vrittis.shtml (1744 words)

	Inside The Yoga Sutras, Rev J Carrera
		A vritti is not simply a thought; it is the activity of forming conceptions from individual thoughts that arise in the mind.
		Vritti activity is the mind's attempt at making sense of the experiences it encounters.
		When vritti activity ceases, when all thought processes are stilled, then every filter is removed from our vision and we perceive Reality in its entirety.
	www.shakticom.org /product_info.php?products_id=320 (922 words)

	Sangha
		The most complex and emotionally charged vasanas are found in the dimension of mind called the sub-subconscious, or vasana chitta.
		vritti: (Sanskrit) "Whirlpool." In yoga psychology, names the fluctuations of consciousness, the waves of mental activities (chitta vritti) of thought and perception.
		A statement from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (1.2) reads, "Yoga is the restraint (nirodha) of mental activity (chitta vritti)." In general use, vritti means: 1) course of action, mode of life; conduct, behavior; way in which something is done; 2) mode of being, nature, kind, character.
	www.angelfire.com /space/yinyang/sangha.html (572 words)

	Power-Yoga.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Understanding yoga as a means for "bringing together" apparently diverse elements and separate entities, is a comfortable interpretation for most people and a graceful allusion to the omnipresent movement implicit in all aspects of yoga, whether the physical, mental, or spiritual disicplines.
		Classically, yoga is defined in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, one of the most significant of the yoga texts, as "citta vritti nirodahah" or "the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind".
		The "practice" of yoga is this actual effort to direct the mind towards one-pointedness, without distraction or interruption, and to calm and steady this wild monkey that jumps around in the jungle from branch to branch.
	www.power-yoga.com /yoga.ihtml (439 words)

	Yoga Schools
		However, most schools are based on the classical astanga, eight-limbed, yoga of Patanjali, which is defined in Sanskrit as yogas cittvritti nirodha, meaning: yoga is (yogas) the restraint (nirodha) of the modifications or whirlings (vritti) of the mind-stuff (citta).
		As a continuation of the withdrawal from external reality, then come the last three stages of dharana, concentration, dhyana, meditative absorption, and samadhi, cosmic consciousness, when the vritti, the whirlings of ordinary consciousness are fully stilled.
		Yoga is the ladder to spiritual liberation, a practical method of union with God.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/ascetic/yoga.html (1414 words)

	Vritti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vritti (plural: Vrittis), in the context of Hinduism and its yoga stream, is the name given to different tendencieswhich come to our mind without our conscious knowledge.
		As a word, vritti means vortex or circular activity with no beginning and noend.
		Vrittis are associated with the Tantric Chakras :
	www.therfcc.org /vritti-258296.html (116 words)

	The Five Vrittis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vritti is first mentioned in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in Chap 1 v2 Sage Patanjali says "Yogachitta Vritti Nirodhah", which translates as "to block the patterns of consciousness is Yoga".
		In v5 vrittis are classified as five modifications of mind, which are painful and not painful which in fact makes ten modification.
		In order to go beyond the Chitta (Mind) vrittis and stop their never-ending influence one has to adopt Abhyasa (persistent practice of Yoga Sadhana) and practice Vairagya (absence of craving).
	www.satyamyoga.com /vrittis.htm (434 words)

	The Paths of Yoga by Swami Kriyananda - J. Donald Walters
		In a series of classes on Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms many years ago, Paramhansa Yogananda pointed out that those waves in the mind which produce delusion and bondage are primarily the likes and dislikes, the biased feelings of the heart.
		Vritti (vortices) literally means "whirlpools"--the whirling eddies that interfere with life's smoothly flowing stream, sucking into a purely private orbit whatever one likes, making one so preoccupied with egoistic selections and rejections that he is no longer consciously a part of the stream.
		Merely to study and philosophize intellectually is not the path of gyana yoga (the path of wisdom).
	www.shareguide.com /Kriyananda.html (1032 words)

	Mayavadi Philosophy
		Before avidya can be removed, a vritti (modification) of the viewer's mind must destroy the avidya surrounding the silvery shell when the senses make contact with it.
		This vritti is compared to a canal through which pure consciousness flows to envelop the object in right understanding.
		Nor the vritti, for the vritti is but a key that unlocks the door behind which is the floodlight of Brahman, which is the only reality.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/mayavada.htm (4647 words)

	Re: Bodhayana Mahrishi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Not much is known for certain about Bodhayana, other than his authorship of the Vritti (commentary) on the Brahma-sutras, the guidebook to understanding Vedanta.
		This Vritti is of cardinal importance to the history of Sri Vaishnava philosophy.
		The Vritti had the reputation of being the most authoritative explanation of the Brahma-sutras, setting forth a philosophy of Theism much as Ramanuja understood the Upanishads.
	www.ramanuja.org /sv/bhakti/archives/nov95/0134.html (287 words)

	Patanjali: The Maturity of Joy
		On the opposite, the discipline of yoga is the cessation of something that has hardly ceased until now and which we evoke by the expression chitta vritti.
		Any perception in which the perceived object is perceived as separate form the perceiving subject is designated by the expression chitta vritti.
		The expression itself reveals it: a “state” of consciousness really means a particular state of consciousness, exactly like ice, liquid water and water vapor are particular states of one and the same reality: water.
	www.omalpha.com /pat.html (1776 words)

	Mind--Its Mysteries and Control
		All the workings of the mind, all modifications that arise in the minds of all are presented to the one common consciousness which is the witness of the mental Vrittis.
		Equilibrium or balance is Santa Vritti; anger is Ghora Vritti; laziness (Alasya), carelessness (Pramada) and drowsiness (Tandri) are Mudha Vrittis.
		The function of Vritti is to cause Avarana-Bhanga (removal of the veil or layer of Sthula Avidya that envelops all objects).
	www.sivanandadlshq.org /download/mind.htm (19357 words)

	Yoga Darsana Institute Forums \| Post 81 \| The Meaning of Vrtti
		Its my further understanding, that these vrittis are Vectors, having at least two dimensions, quantity and direction(or time) or as you have said it before 'gravitating towards' (a vector).
		No, because Vritti is a dynamic concept, a process, a movement, a direction taken or effected, and therefore will loose its contraception from time and consequently gets impregnated with space.
		I suppose that citta with all vritti stilled, calmed or removed would be the only solution to break out of this time-space fabric.
	www.yogadarsana.org /sutra81.html (1708 words)

	Keralaonline.com - Soul Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The mind as vritti is thus an inner representation of the outer object.
		Because the mind is thus ‘transformed’ into the shape of the object perceived, the mind which meditates on a Deity, for example, is, at length, through continued concentration, transformed into the likeness of that Deity, becomes as pure and powerful as the Deity.
		The mental-stuff that remains after the psychic patterns (vrittis) have been stopped is called citta.
	keralaonline.com /dailydose/spirituality/display.asp?cap=meditsteps.htm (2762 words)

	Lessons in Vedanta - 51 - December 2000
		Therefore, to consider that Vritti as Chaitanya is a loose definition.
		That Jnana is an attribute of Atma and 2.
		Hence, Vritti Jnana is a function of the mind and not an attribute of Atma.
	www.dattapeetham.com /india/bhaktimala/dec2000/vedantadec2000.html (1786 words)

	Andey Lappa’s Official cite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yoga is a restrain (control, termination) of vritti (fluctuations of consciousness), pertaining to the mind.
		When vrittis are restrained, the meditator stays in his own nature.
		Therefore, training in Yoga is a means for controlling feelings and stopping of the mind, resulting in complete perception and the gaining of complete control of all of the material nature of one’s own being, as well as in understanding particular aspects of one’s own being.
	www.yoga.com.ua /lappa/date/form/18_e.php (616 words)

	Panchadasi [4] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Similarly, both in the intervals between the modifications of the intellect (Vrittis), in which Chidabhasa is reflected and during their absence (in deep sleep) Kutastha abides self-illumined; and Kutastha is therefore to be known as different from Chidabhasa.
		The Vritti of intellect, the reflection of Chit on the pot and the (object) pot – all three are made known by Brahman-Chaitanya; whereas the (object) pot’s existence (at a particular place) is known by the reflection of Chit on the pot, inasmuch as it is the ‘resultant’ consciousness.
		The Vritti with Brahman as the object is the cognition of truth, but the Vritti perishes in a moment.
	www.celextel.org /ebooks/other_books/panchadasi_4.htm (7709 words)

	Vritti Photo Gallery by Christopher Schardt at pbase.com
		Vritti Photo Gallery by Christopher Schardt at pbase.com
		in sanskrit, a "vritti" is a disturbance of the mind, such as a negative emotional reaction.
		this machine whips a metal-frame head with a flaming whip, symbolizing the effects of vritties on the human mind
	www.pbase.com /schardt/vritti (43 words)

	Conquest of Anger - cause of anger,fear control,anger management
		Anger is a negative Vritti or whirlpool in the mind-lake.
		Anger is a Vritti or modification that arises in the mind-lake when the Gunas—Rajas and Tamas—predominate.
		Identification with the Vritti is the cause of human sufferings.
	www.yoga-age.com /modern/anger.html (5747 words)

	Ved Mandir - Yoga Philosophy & Meditation (17)
		This Vritti is not true and as such is not acceptable as a proof, because when the rope will be seen in the light then the false knowledge will be over and true knowledge is realized that this is rope and is not snake.
		Therefore the Viparyaya Vritti of the Chitta is of false knowledge and cannot be considered as a proof.
		It is due to Chitta's Viparyaya Vritti which gives sorrows and if an aspirant become an ascetic knowing the word mortal and thus the aspirant starts worshipping God or practicing Ashtang Yoga, then this is Chitta's Aklishta Viparyaya Vritti which gives no sorrows.
	www.vedmandir.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=44 (432 words)

	SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 12 - CHAPTER 7
		Vritti means the process of sustenance, by which the moving beings live upon the nonmoving.
		For a human, vritti specifically means acting for one's livelihood in a manner suited to his personal nature.
		Such action may be carried out either in pursuit of selfish desire or in accordance with the law of God.
	www.srimadbhagavatam.org /canto12/chapter7.html (2621 words)

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