Notes: The term citta refers to the "generative mind", a mirror-like aspect of awareness that reflects the environment and its potentials, pouring into and interacting with the phenomenal world. Yoga is defined as: yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ — "Union is the elimination of the patterns of citta." (Yoga-sutra 1.2) It is not that mind and awareness must be categorically eliminated. Rather, our concern is over the uncontrolled fluctuation of this reflective awareness and the resulting entanglement of the subject with the world of objects. Then, tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpē'vasthānam — "There the witness abides in its intrinsic nature." The yogi's predicament is with a consciousness that entangles and identifies with mental dynamics. The faculties of life are not rejected — rather, they are "yoked" into the process and liberated into union with their respective natures, released from the bondage of the ego that assumes ownership of its slice of the universe.