yoga (Sanskrit: the royal path) (Rama et al., 2014) Both paths are not contradictory, whereas, Vedanta is more abstract and theoretical, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is more applied and experimental According to Vedantic tradition (Rama et al., 2014), mind is classified as having four functions: manas (Sanskrit: sense controls) or the lower mind, buddhi (Sanskrit: discriminative power, decision making or intellect), chitta (Sanskrit: reservoir of past impressions and memory), and ahamkara (Sanskrit: sense of I-ness or ego) The self of an individual is pure consciousness (or pure happiness) beyond the mental realm, see Figure Figure Four mental functions of mind as per Eastern Vedantic tradition Freud (1856–1939), who founded psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness, mostly influenced early Western psychology (McLeod, 2018) According to Freud, the mind has at least three levels: the conscious mind, the subconscious mind, and the unconsciousness mind (trans Freud, 2005; Rama et al., 2014) Freud, conceptualized mind as an iceberg, in that the conscious mind is like the tip of an iceberg, 185