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?