Day 41: Sutra 1.4: Vritti Sarupyam Itaratra

If we're not in practice, we take on our thoughts and start to identify with them.

Sutra 1.4: Vritti Sarupyam Itaratra

Vritti - Thought waves
Sarupyam - Mirrored, Identified
Itaratra - Otherwise, at other times

Yoga Sutra 1.4, Vritti Sarupyam Itaratra, serves as a warning: when we are not regularly in practice of the eight limbs of yoga, we lose ourselves in the patterns of our thoughts. Instead of being present and self-aware, we become …