Chitta

Chitta
The [|Mind] has the power of identity, we are what we think. If we focus our [|mind] on sour thoughts, we are sour. http://en.mimi.hu/yoga/chitta.html
 * Chitta**m comes from [|chiti] which mean [|consciousness]. **Chitta**m is the seat of [|consciousness].

1. Chitta is the Subconscious mind. It is the mind-stuff. It is the store-house of memory. Samskaras or impressions of actions are imbedded here. It is one of the four parts of Antahkarana or inner instruments, viz., mind, intellect, Chitta and Ahankara or ego. http://www.experiencefestival.com/chitta

The energy used in the telepathic work is the "chitta" (as the Hindus call it) or the mind-stuff which underlies and is the very substance of manifestation itself. God, the planetary Life or Logos, however, works with the higher correspondence of this mind-stuff and the forces of the mental plane are the reflection or rather the densification of this higher mental substance. These forces, this mind-stuff, is constantly in flux and in motion. DINA I, p 68

The first thing that must be done is to train the child in the correct use of the discriminating faculty and in the power of choice and of directed purpose. He must be brought to a truer understanding of the underlying purpose of being, and be led to work with wisdom in the field of creative activity, which means, in the last analysis, in the right use of the "mind stuff" (the //chitta// of Patanjali). Thus and only thus, can he be released from the control of his lower nature. ENA, p 22

The forces of the lower mental nature, of the chitta or mind-stuff of which the mental body is composed. This is colored by past activity, as is the substance composing all the vehicles. This adds to maya and glamor, the state of illusion. GWP, p 116

This might be regarded as the innate capacity of that which we call the mind, the chitta, or mind stuff, to become more and more sensitive to the impact of the phenomenal world, and to the impression from the higher worlds of being. The mind is the instrument which registers the process of "becoming" but it is also - during the later stages of human unfoldment - capable of registering the nature or function of //being. GWP, p 173//

//The mental body,// or that much of the chitta or mind stuff which an individual human unit can use and impress, constitutes the fourth of the series of mechanisms at the disposal of the soul. EH, p 3

Though the mind of the eastern thinker may run to creative imagery and that of the western worker to creative scientific achievement, yet the world into which they enter is curiously the same; the instrument of thought which they employ is called the "mind " in the West and " mind-stuff " (chitta) in the East; both use the language of symbology to express their conclusions and both reach the point where words prove futile to embody the intuited possibilities. From Intellect to Intuition, p 3

To make itself felt on the physical plane, a brain is required which is receptive to higher impulses and which can be impressed by the soul utilizing the "chitta" or mental substance in order to create the needed thought forms, and so express the ideas and purposes of the intelligent loving soul. TOWM, p 250

There is no day in any man's life, particularly if he is an aspirant or a disciple, when a man cannot work in mental matter, control his use of thought, watch the effect of his mental processes on those he contacts, and so handle his "chitta" or mind-stuff (as Patanjali calls it) that he becomes more and more useful. TOWM, p 280

The cerebro-spinal system works in close relation to the chitta or mind stuff. TOWM, p 284

In the middle of the Atlantean period, when certain great changes and experiments were wrought, a shift in the entire process took place; certain egos came in, as you know, as related in the //Secret Doctrine// and in a //Treatise on Cosmic Fire,// and a tremendous stepping forward became possible through their efforts. The chitta or mind-stuff became more vibrant and now we have the period of its intensest activity in the concrete sense. TOWM, p 361

When the chitta, or mind stuff, is swept into activity by abstract ideas (the embodied thoughts of the divine mind, carrying the energy of their creator and consequently the cause of phenomenal effects in the three worlds) and when to this is added divine understanding and synthetic apprehension of the will and purpose of God, then the three aspects of mind are unified. TOWM, p 387

**2. This Union (or Yoga) is achieved through the subjugation of the psychic nature and the restraint of the chitta (or mind).** [...] The //chitta// is the mind, or mind-stuff, the mental body, the faculty of thought and of thought-form making, the sum total of the mental processes; it is the material governed by the ego or soul out of which thought forms are made. YSP, p 9

**2. This Union (or Yoga) is achieved through the subjugation of the psychic nature and the restraint of the chitta (or mind). [...]** Perhaps one of the easiest ways to realize its meaning is to remember that the word "Sama" has reference to the faculty of the mind-stuff (or chitta) to take form or to modify itself according to the external impressions. YSP, p 35

**33.** **The peace of the chitta (or mind stuff) can be brought about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose, and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, or towards all forms of good or evil. YSP, p 75**


 * 34.** **The peace of the chitta is also brought about by the regulation of the prana or life breath. YSP, p 77**


 * 37.** **The chitta is stabilized and rendered free from illusion as the lower nature is purified and no longer indulged. YSP, p 84**


 * 38.** **Peace (steadiness of the chitta) can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. YSP, p 85**


 * 47.** **When this supercontemplative state is reached, the Yogi acquires pure spiritual realization through the balanced quiet of the Chitta (or mind stuff). YSP, p 102**

The halo is a fact in nature and not just a symbol. It is the result of the work of Raja Yoga and is the physical demonstration of the life and light of the spiritual man. Vivekananda says, speaking technically (and it is good for Western occult students to master the technique and terminology of this science of the soul which the East has held in trust for so long):

"The chitta has, by its own nature, all knowledge. It is made of sattva particles, but is covered by rajas and tamas particles, and by pranayama this covering is removed." YSP, p 228 
 * 1.** **Concentration is the fixing of the chitta (mind stuff) upon a particular object. This is dharana. YSP, p 243**


 * 3. When the chitta becomes absorbed in that which is the reality (or idea embodied in the form), and is unaware of separateness or of the personal self, this is contemplation or samadhi. YSP, p 248 **


 * 8. Even these three, however, are external to the true seedless meditation (or samadhi) which is not based on an object. It is free from the effects of the discriminative nature of the chitta (or mind stuff). YSP, p 257

**** 9. The sequence of mental states is as follows: the mind reacts to that which is seen; then follows the moment of mind control. Then ensues a moment wherein the chitta (mind stuff) responds to both these factors. Finally these pass away, and the perceiving consciousness has full sway. YSP, p 258

**** 38. B **** y liberation from the causes of bondage through their weakening, and by an understanding of the mode of transference (withdrawal or entrance), the mind stuff (or chitta) can enter another body. YSP, p 327

** **14.** **The manifestation of the objective form is due to the one-pointedness of the effect-producing cause (the unification of the modifications of the chitta or mind stuff). YSP, p 401**

**21. If knowledge of the mind (chitta) by a remoter mind is postulated, an infinite number of knowers must be inferred, and the sequence of memory reactions would tend to infinite confusion. YSP, p 414**

This intensification of the light will continue until A.D. 2025, when there will come a cycle of relative stability and of steady shining without much augmentation. In the second decanate of Aquarius these three aspects will again be augmented by increased light from the fourth aspect, that is the light from the soul realm, reaching us via the universal "chitta" or mind stuff. EP I, p 103

This intuition is a quality of mental matter and of the "chitta" or mind stuff. EP I, p 199

The constant "permutations of the chitta or mind stuff " and the perpetual "thought form making activity of the mental body" engrosses the man so constantly that nothing else registers in his consciousness. EP II, 468

The idea, thought-form. or mental impression which must be recorded in the brain consciousness of the recipient opens a way in the pranic fluids and so controls their activity (which is as ceaseless as the thought-form-making propensities of the //chitta)// that the brain becomes responsive in two ways... TEV, p 27 



