I don't know the source for this, but it's interesting:
this is VERY unusual in a Swami:
"All suppressions bring misery. Suppression and
repression are very dangerous for your mental life. Anything
you suppress will come up in your dreams. How could Patanjali
say you should suppress your mind and modifications?"
Swami Venkatesananda Saraswati wrote: The word nirodha is
very difficult to translate. It has been rendered into
suppression or restraint. This has given rise to all sorts of
misunderstanding—people justifying suppression of thought,
etc. How do you suppress thought? How do you suppress that
which you don’t even know and which you don’t even see? Then
you create something within yourself—‘I am thinking of that
ring now. I am going to suppress that thought.’ What are you
doing? You are not thinking. Which means you are thinking you
are not thinking. What about the thought which says, ‘I am
not thinking’? If you are not going to suppress the act of
breathing and the pumping of your heart, why must you
suppress another natural faculty called thought?
When you say that the content of the wave is water, what
happens to the wave? Have you suppressed it, restrained it,
abolished it? If you are still looking at the wave as a wave,
you are not looking at the water. If you are looking at the
whole thing as water, something has taken place within you,
and that is called nirodha. So the word ‘understanding’
explains it better than the words ‘suppression’ or
‘restraint’. The yogi is not interested in either expressing
or suppressing, nor does he say that this alone is the truth
or that alone is the truth.
The sutra says, Yogash chitt-vritti-nirodhah. Because of the
confusion in language many writers have translated the word
nirodhah as suppression or repression or restraint.
Suppression is not the right translation. What do you mean by
suppression? Why call it suppression? Do you mean you do not
want your manas to think; you do not want your buddhi to
function; you do not want your ego to function; you do not
want your chitta to function? Do you want to suppress all the
faculties of your mind? If you call it suppression or
repression, then suppression and repression will lead your
life. All suppressions bring misery. Suppression and
repression are very dangerous for your mental life. Anything
you suppress will come up in your dreams. How could Patanjali
say you should suppress your mind and modifications?