Chit
The Sanskrit term chit (or cit ) is a fundamental principle in all spiritual disciplines on the Indian subcontinent .
etymology
Chit - चित् - (cit) - is closely related to citta and can be translated as consciousness , understanding, true consciousness, knowledge, being conscious, understanding, comprehending . Chit is mostly understood in the sense of a pure impersonal consciousness.
description
The term chit is widely used in Hinduism , Sikhism , Jainism and other religions. In the Upanishads , Chit is associated with Drishta - the seer, or supersense, who interprets all sensory perceptions. According to the Vedas, Chit forms one of the three aspects of the essence of the Absolute, the Sat-Chit-Ananda .
Chitaranjan gives the feeling of awareness and full awareness.
Chit in yoga
In the Yogasutras of Patanjali , Chit appears in two places in the fourth chapter on Kaivalya (kaivalya-pādaḥ - path of freedom):
"चितेरप्रतिसंक्रमायाः तदाकारापत्तौ स्वबुद्धि संवेदनम् - citer-aprati-saṁkramāyāḥ tad-ākāra-āpattau svabuddhi saṁ-vedanam - as soon as the consciousness has come to rest, it reflects unchangeable, pure awareness and at the same time sees how it observes itself."
„पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानांप्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा चितिशक्तिरिति - puruṣa-artha-śūnyānāṁ guṇānāṁ-pratiprasavaḥ kaivalyaṁ svarūpa-pratiṣṭhā vā citiśaktiriti - the gate to freedom opens when the fundamental properties of nature ( gunas ) - their transformations are registered at the moment of their occurrence empty and thus irrelevant to the pure awareness of the practitioner. Pure awareness stands alone by virtue of its very own nature - the power of pure cognition (seeing). "
This ends the Yoga Sutra.
The same advice to transcend the Gunas is also given by Krishna to Arjuna :
„त्रैगुण्यविषया वेदा निस्त्रैगुण्यो भवार्जुन निर्द्वन्द्वो नित्यसत्त्वस्थो निर्योगक्षेम आत्मवान् - traiguṇya-vishayā vedā nistrai-guṇyo bhavārjuna nirdvandvo nitya-sattva-stho niryoga-kṣema ātmavān - Be without the three gunas treated in the Vedas, always to be free from Zw o Ariespaltinen State (spiritual existence), free from possessiveness and always anchored in the self. "
interpretation
Aurobindo Ghose describes Chit as universal consciousness, which can be found in a descending cascade of consciousness in creation. In the triad of Brahman it occupies the middle level below Sat - सत् - (pure being) and above Ananda - आनन्द - (bliss).