Acharya Mahaprajna
Bhagvan Mahavira said, "This man's chitta has many facets, which is not one but many. If we define the many facets of the chitta, they would be four:
- Avarana Chitta
- Antaraya Chitta
- Mithyadarshan Chitta
- Moha Chitta
These are of four kinds of chitta. There are hundreds of other kinds, but in the present context only the discussion on these four kinds is needed, in contrast, there are the following four kinds of chitta:
- Avarana Chitta
- Nirvighna Chitta
- Samyag-dharshan Chitta
- Veetaraga Chitta
Thus, the chitta is of many kinds and of many grades. Maharshi Patanjali also has talked about several kinds of chitta. There is the concept of the chitta in the Samkhya philosophy as well. There are the concepts of both the chitta and the mind in the Jain philosophy. It is not as though these concepts are not found in the Samakhya philosophy. But there is a detailed analysis of these concepts in the Jain philosophy. Maharshi Patanjali, or the commentator Vyasa of Patanjala Yoga Darshana, mentioned three forms of the chitta: mithya-chitta, pravritti chitta and smriti chitta. The mithya-chitta is that in which the rajas guna and the tamas guna are dominant. This aspire luxurious life, powers and rights. The tamas guna is the foremost in the pravritti-chitta, which is characterised by attachment, stupor and delusion. Smriti-chitta is that in which the tamas guna and rajas guna are completely absent. The smriti-chitta renunciation, detachment and so many other gunas originate and end here.
