Vritti
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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.
Vrittis of Tantric Chakras
Vrittis are associated with the Tantric Chakras:
- Muladhara: greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passion, and blissfulness in concentration.
- Swadhisthana: affection, pitilessness, feeling of all-destructiveness, delusion, disdain and suspicion.
- Manipura: spiritual ignorance, thirst, jealousy, treachery, shame, fear, disgust, delusion, foolishness and sadness.
- Anahata: lustfulness, fraudulence, indecision, repentance, hope, anxiety, longing, impartiality, arrogance, incompetency, discrimination and defiance.
- Vishuddha
- Ajna
- Sahasrara
See also
External link
- The Vrittis by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati (http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1996/5sep96/vrittis.shtml)