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> Hi Dharma, Chit is the Universal absolute, called Paramashiva,

>or prakasha. Chiti is the Svatantrya, or free will of the Supreme to

>create, also called Parashakti, or vimarsha. These are the two aspects

>of the absolute, prakasha (illumination, consciousness) and vimarsha

>(Self awareness; scanning of the ultimate of itself). Chitti is all of

>creation, or Parashakti, the dynamic creative energy of Shiva. Everthing

>that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, tasted, every thought, every

>object, all is Chiti. The contracted form of Shiva, called jiva, or

>Chita, is brought about by the primal limiting power of Anava mala. The

>reference to the modified mind is the contracted form of Shiva; Jiva or

>Chita. The goal is to expand the modified mind (chita) back to its

>original infinite status, or Chiti; the limited mind must expand back to

>its expanded state of infinite universal Mind. This is the only real

>goal. The rest is the play. Mahabhakti M

 

Hi Marcus,

 

Thank you for this. I want to understand these words, so I'll ask some

questions. They may sound stupid, but I know nothing of Sanskrit - well,

except that it's Indo-European.

 

These forms of the same word - Chit, Chiti, Chita (and once you wrote

Chitti, but that may have been a typo) - how do they differ? Are they

masculine and feminine forms? Or is it some other difference? Chit/Chiti

would seem to be masc./fem, since they are Paramashiva and Parashakti...

but then where does the form Chita come from... the contracted form of

Shiva, you said...

 

If Chitti (Chiti?) is all of creation... and is also the free will of the

Supreme to create... then the will of Chit to create is the same thing as

the creation?

 

I do still have Muktananda's autobiography here unpacked... I see in his

glossary he gives only Chiti and Chitshakti, which he says is the same

thing. He seems to use the word Chiti for all the things you said above...

perhaps he was simplifying for his audience? In the title of his book he

uses Chitshakti... it is translated Consciousness.

 

I think that second verse of Patanjali uses the word vritti, translated as

modifications... That's why I was struck by the line in the Sutra 10 you

gave: "The individual is the modification of the mind, The Absolute is

the great silence:..." If "the modification of the mind" is some form of

chita vritti in Sanskrit, then I had to compare with Patanjali and ask

myself if that means one could say, "Meditation is the control of the

individual." Or "of the individual consciousness."

 

Love,

Dharma

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Hi Dharma,

Chit is the Universal absolute, called Paramashiva, or prakasha.

 

Chiti is the Svatantrya, or free will of the Supreme to create, also called

Parashakti, or vimarsha.

 

These are the two aspects of the absolute, prakasha (illumination,

consciousness) and vimarsha (Self awareness; scanning of the ultimate of

itself).

 

Chitti is all of creation, or Parashakti, the dynamic creative energy of Shiva.

Everthing that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, tasted, every thought, every

object, all is Chiti.

 

The contracted form of Shiva, called jiva, or Chita, is brought about by the

primal limiting power of Anava mala.

 

The reference to the modified mind is the contracted form of Shiva; Jiva or

Chita.

 

The goal is to expand the modified mind (chita) back to its original infinite

status, or Chiti; the limited mind must expand back to its expanded state of

infinite universal Mind.

 

This is the only real goal. The rest is the play.

 

Mahabhakti

M