Patel, Govindbhai

My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

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Sri Aurobindo — Patel, Govindbhai

July 25, 1932

July 25, 1932

What is the difference between “Chitta” and “Chit”?

Chit is the pure consciousness — as in Sat-Chit-Ananda.

Chitta is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness, out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse, etc. It is these that in Patanjali’s system have to be stilled altogether so that, the consciousness may become immobile and go into Samadhi.