Discussion
Which of the following is Vritti (modification of çitta) as advocated by yogadarṣana ?
Answer: A
The vritti is Nidrā (sleep).
Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (1.6) list five vrittis, modifications of the mind-stuff (citta): pramana (valid knowledge), viparyaya (error), vikalpa (verbal imagination), nidra (sleep) and smriti (memory). Sleep is a vritti because it is a modification based on the cognition of absence; on waking one remembers having slept well or badly.
Antahkarana, the inner instrument, and manas, the mind, are faculties, not modifications of citta. Dravya, substance, is a category of the Vaisheshika system and has nothing to do with the Yoga list of vrittis.
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