{"id":35275,"date":"2017-02-03T16:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/?p=35275"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T18:43:24","slug":"sutra-1-40-chitta-extension-and-densification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/sutra-1-40-chitta-extension-and-densification\/","title":{"rendered":"Sutra 1.40. Chitta Extension and Densification"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have analyzed sutra 1.40 in the context of cognitive aspect proposed by Vyasa. But there can be a different view on techniques the sutra proposes. This kind of energetic practices can be found in all major esoteric Traditions though they may come under different names. In our School we refer to them as \u201cthe techniques of chakras fields extension and densification\u201d. But let us consider the subject step by step.<\/div>\n
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Person\u2019s physical self-identity is rather obviously determined by the size of one\u2019s physical body. Energetic self-identity is a more sophisticated thing that can come in a size larger or smaller than a physical one. There are many instances exemplifying the said. Everyone knows the sense of discomfort one gets from other people\u2019s being careless about a thing one loves. A vehicle\u2019s wheel getting into a ditch makes a motorist suffer from \u201cphysical\u201d pain. The two of a loving couple have a distant sensing of each other\u2019s feelings and emotions. A mother can feel her child\u2019s state. Sport fans become down with their favourite team defeat. A company head has a feeling of the enterprise\u2019s being in trouble long before it becomes evident, and so on. All given examples have one thing in common: a \u201cphysical\u201d sensation of something that does not make a part of our physical body. Though if to put it right way, this is of course not physical yet energy-related experience, the type of sensations that turns energy into substantial category even in the eyes of a non-practitioner. These sensations can be explained by a concept representing chitta that we have defined as \u201csubstantialized self-awareness\u201d to be localized not only within our body but to extend onto external objects we have integrated into our identity. Sometimes a person can be energetically \u201clarger\u201d than his real body. While in other cases the \u2018body\u2019 of one\u2019s chitta can become smaller than a physical one. People lacking somatic awareness, like those of schizoid type [1], have their self-identity and, respectively, chitta located mostly in their head, and thus have problems with body control and coordination.<\/div>\n
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It is the ability of chitta to dwell in external objects that gives a clue to phenomena like objects of power and one\u2019s dependency upon them. Like the one described in cases telling about a shaman who died after his drum has been stolen.<\/div>\n
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A non-practitioner is characterized by some regular \u201cdistribution\u201d of chitta that an attentive reader can guess to correspond to his chakras density or looseness [2]. A person like this comes with almost minimized ranges of freedom as to his identity management. While they are essential. Starting from everyday situations \u2013 like the necessity to throw away a broken thing that is \u201cdear to one\u2019s heart\u201d (i.e, an item with Muladhara energies imposed on it), and up to \u201cspiritual best practices\u201d like totalness or its contrary \u2013 the skill of disengagement from different real-life situations.<\/div>\n
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We can cite a number of instances showing the inability to \u201cwithdraw the energy\u201d of this or that chakra to impair person\u2019s life. After USSR breakup in 1990-ies many elders were not able to disengage from social roles that were once notional in the state that no longer existed. As a result, they turned less adaptive in terms of new time. Another example. Parents\u2019 failure to timely withdrawal of energies from their grown-up child (what they call a \u201cletting go\u201d process in psychology) may result in a child\u2019s getting a syndrome of \u201cmamma\u2019s darling\u201d or \u201ceternal bride\u201d. Whereas parents who proceed to \u201clive\u201d the life of their \u201cbaby\u201d emasculate their own lives by losing the ability to find personal ways and interests. Densification of chakra energies and making them \u201cshrink\u201d into one\u2019s physical body help dealing with pain and suffering.<\/div>\n
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And on the contrary \u2013 there are many situations that require extension of one\u2019s identity onto something new. We call it the extension of chakra field. For instance, adaptation to a new work environment (state, family) or undergoing a training (especially that with completely new methods involved). Empathy and infatuation are the natural states of Anahata field extension. While people with rigid chakras may face difficulties in extending their fields. It\u2019s hard for them to let something new come into their life, to change their identity.<\/div>\n
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Changing the volume of chitta from extremely small to extremely large and one\u2019s sustainable dwelling in the selected state is what Patanjali describes in sutra 1.40.<\/div>\n
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Notwithstanding my having given a number of everyday examples, the actual skills of chakras field voluntary densification and extension is a sophisticated art that is to be mastered under supervision of an experienced teacher. And when mastered, they provide with a wealth of real (applicable and verifiable) abilities (siddhis) and ranges of freedom.<\/div>\n
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[1] See Chakra Psychodiagnistics [the book is available in Russian]<\/div>\n
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[2] See Yoga: Physiology, Psychosomatics, Bioenergetics [the book is available in English<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have analyzed sutra 1.40 in the context of cognitive aspect proposed by Vyasa. But there can be a different view on techniques the sutra proposes. This kind of energetic practices can be found in all major esoteric Traditions though they may come under different names. In our School we refer to them as \u201cthe… Continue reading Sutra 1.40. Chitta Extension and Densification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[706,251,683,627],"class_list":["post-35275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-sutra-en","tag-chitta","tag-patanjali","tag-siddhi-en","tag-vyasa-en","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}