Chanchala Movie

[Colby DuLin]

Chanchalais a Sanskrit adjective basically referring to the unsteady vacillating nature of human mind and actions which need to be stilled, neutralized or controlled for gaining right speech and vision.

Chanchala, meaning, 'the fickle-fortune', is one of the many names of Lakshmi.[5] There is no mention of Lakshmi in the Rig Veda. Sri of the Rig Veda is deified as a personified being in the Yajurveda, and in the Atharvaveda (I.18) she is prayed to secure prosperity. Jatavedas Agni is repeatedly asked to make the goddess come to the votary; the epithet anapagamini reflects the chanchala i.e. fleet or fickle aspect of the goddess.[6] Lakshmi or Chanchala as the mobile one associates only with the rich and the dynamic, no matter what their caste, creed or colour.[7] Because Lakshmi is chanchala i.e. quick on her feet, to make her achala i.e. 'immobile', she needs to be worshipped quietly so that she does not get distracted.[8]

The vritti, or swirling thoughts that surface in the mind, correspond to the three gunas, which are the attributes of nature. It is believed that the chanchala activity of these thoughts can be controlled through three practices:

Abhyasa and vairagya are considered pillars of yoga. In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali refers to them as methods of achieving chitta-vritti-nirodha, or a state in which the fluctuations of the mind have been removed.

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