Vritti

Vritti (plural: Vrittis), in the context of yoga, is the name given to different tendencies which come to our mind without our conscious knowledge.

As a word, vritti means vortex or circular activity with no beginning and no end.

Vrittis of Tantric Chakras
Vrittis are associated with the Tantric Chakras:
 * 1) Muladhara: greatest joy, natural pleasure, delight in controlling passion, and blissfulness in concentration.
 * 2) Swadhisthana: affection, pitilessness, feeling of all-destructiveness, delusion, disdain and suspicion.
 * 3) Manipura: spiritual ignorance, thirst, jealousy, treachery, shame, fear, disgust, delusion, foolishness and sadness.
 * 4) Anahata: lustfulness, fraudulence, indecision, repentance, hope, anxiety, longing, impartiality, arrogance, incompetency, discrimination and defiance.
 * 5) Vishuddha
 * 6) Ajna
 * 7) Sahasrara

External link

 * The Vrittis by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati: http://www.yogamag.net/archives/1996/5sep96/vrittis.shtml