"The third meaning of yoga is based on the Yoga Sútram of Maharshi Patanjali. There yoga means Yogashcittavrttirnirodhah [“Yoga is the suspension of all psychic propensities”].
There are a great number of psychic propensities in the human mind, as compared to the animal mind. The human mind, broadly speaking, has fifty propensities. These fifty propensities work internally as well as externally and get expressed through the ten sensory and motor organs. Therefore, the total amounts to one thousand propensities. That is, these fifty basic propensities have one thousand expressions or mental occupations. These are called cittavrtti in Sanskrit. The controlling seat of these one thousand expressions is known as the sahasrára cakra in Sanskrit. It is also known as the “thousand-petalled lotus”. The English name for the sahasrára cakra is the pineal gland or pineal body.
Now, let us understand the meaning of cittavrttirnirodhah. When these propensities moving in one thousand directions are withdrawn, when these expressions are suspended, this is known as cittavrttinirodhah. Now if these mental occupations are suspended, all the activities of the human structure will come to an end. According to Patanjali, this is the final stage of yoga. The word nirodhah means “suspension”. It is derived as follows: ni - rudh + ghaiṋ.
But this interpretation of yoga by Maharshi Patanjali is not accepted by Tantra. Tantra says: Saḿyoga yoga ityukto jiivátmá Paramátmanah. “The unification of the jiivátmá with Paramátmá is yoga,” as per Tantra. Saḿyoga means “unification”, and yoga ityukto means “known as yoga”. So here Tantra has moved a step further. According to Patanjali, yoga is the suspension of mental propensities. However, you know that when mental propensities are withdrawn from externalities and suspended, then, for want of a desideratum, they create disturbances in the internal layers of the mind. Although those propensive expressions will not be functioning externally, they will be active internally. One may not steal externally but may steal internally. Tantra refuses to accept this concept.
According to Tantra, the unification of the jiivátmá with Paramátmá means yoga. After withdrawing the mental propensities, they are to be guided towards the Supreme Entity. Then alone will the withdrawal be final. Only by guiding these withdrawn mental propensities towards the Supreme Cognition can the total unification of the jiivátmá with Paramátmá be possible, and this is yoga."
2 October 1978, Patna
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Source: The Tantric Definition of Yoga
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