What is the other definition for yoga?
‘Chitta vritti nirodha‘
‘tada drushta swarupe awasthanam’. From the
scenery, you get back to the seer.
Now, I am the scenery and you are the seer.
For me, you are the scenery and I am the
seer. So, I take my attention from outside to
inside. First, from the environment I bring my
attention to the physical body. Then I go one
step further because even the body is the
scenery and I take my attention to the mind.
Now, when I witness the thoughts that are
coming in the mind, even thoughts become
the scenery and so I go deeper.
So, movement from the scenery to the seer,
to the one who is seeing, everything is again
another definition of yoga. If you keep just
these two definitions of yoga in your mind,
you are done!
The yoga sutras are very simple. They are
just one-liners but they are pregnant with
meaning. ‘Tada Dhrishta Swarupeawasthanam’,
which means, establishes oneself in the seer
and not in the scenery.
Whenever you experience joy, ecstasy,
bliss and happiness in life, knowingly or
unknowingly you are abiding in the form of
the seer; in the nature of the seer. Otherwise,
at other times, you are with different
activities of the mind. You become one with