Yoga calms the thought patterning of mind & thus the internal structure of mind becomes silent. So, our acquired knowledge can be misconceived sometimes & Viparyaya vritti of mind leads us towards the untrue perception of reality. Viparyaya vritti of mind don’t let us perceive real knowledge of experience & we keep bound in the unreality of 5 senses. Everything we taste, see, touch, sound, and smells (5 senses) in the world is just what we perceive through 5 senses & what is relevant to us. prapancha literally translates into ‘perception through 5 sense’. In Sanskrit, the term prapancha describes the ‘World’. The phenomenon of mirage is an example of a Viparyaya vritti where we easily deceit using 5 senses. All knowledge of the external world we get through 5 senses & sometimes this knowledge is deceptive. Misconception or Viparyaya refers to the vritti when the mind gets false knowledge based on the mistake of 5 senses. In further sutra, Patanjali gives 6 kinds of Pramana vritti through which mind acquire the right knowledge. but in actual, there is no water (The outcome of the result has no useful application). If you see it from a distant, there appears to be water (Information we perceive through 5 senses is real). The outcome of information should have a useful applicationįor example – Consider a mirage.True nature of that information revealed using 5 senses.The same experience which is true for us, someone can have the exact opposite sensation for it.įor a piece of information to be Right (Pramana), there are 2 conditions must be fulfilled in every condition. It’s our buddhi which continually modifying our perception to make an experience a truth. Pramana vritti of mind let us believe that something is ‘firmly’ right. Right cognition or Pramana is the ‘proof’ of information to be valid according to our belief, experience & morals. but vritti is also all the perception in dreams or an altered state of consciousness. These ‘ 5 vrittis‘ gives us an idea that the ‘vritti’ is not limited only to perception experienced in waking state. Patanjali described 5 vritti to understand how mind experience a thought pattern & modify it according to the buddhi (Intellect). The practice of yoga aims to control the vrittis of the chattering mind, so we can get the reality behind it. This bound awareness always creates the disturbance in realizing the higher consciousness. Hence, Vritti (वृत्ति) is like a cycle (circle – Vritt ‘वृत्त’) of thought patterns into which our awareness keep bound to certain objects. Vrittis are the result of samskara, which produces another samskara. Samskara gives the mind a direction to express the variety of emotions & behaviour towards different situations. Samskara is the result of our past karma that left imprints on the mind. Vritti in Hinduism describes on the basis of samskara. Usually, vritti is the result of our attachments, desires & fear of the external world. ![]() Hence, Vritti is the fluctuations (of chattering mind) that affect our perception of experiencing the reality.
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