It is important to know that all of us have a combination of samskaras in four different states.
Susupti (Dormant): A desire which we were never aware of, a trait hidden in the depths of our personalities, which could suddenly manifest, to the surprise of oneself and others.
Ugra (Fully active): Desires which we actively pursue; our active traits, our manifest personality
Tanu (Weak): Our weaker tendencies, our feeble desires, the weaker parts of our manifest personality, which can be overridden
Vicchinda (Intercepted): Where one stronger trait might override and overcome a weaker trait. A more intense desire might suppress a relatively weaker one. (examples)
We could also broadly classify all samskaras as: Exteriorized and Interiorised
Exteriorized samskaras are those which urge us, compel us to interact and engage more and more with the outer world. When we hanker for more people, things, and experiences to fulfill us, it means most of our samskaras are exteriorized. Our 21st century modern world encourages us to be extroverts. It rewards greater engagement and collaboration with things, people and phenomena outside us. It is an environment which promotes and activates our exteriorized, outward looking samskaras.
On the other hand, interiorised samskaras pull us inward, disengage us from the outside world. This is when internal phenomena is more arresting, engaging and fulfilling than the outer ones. There are far lesser introverts in the world today than extroverts because modern civilization encourages and rewards exteriorisation. Even natural introverts, those whose samskaras lean inward force themselves to be extroverts. However, the Yogic program is running in our systems, despite us, without us being aware of it. Yoga is a process happening inside you, despite you. Like you age and you will die whether you like it or not. When you hack the process to reach the destination faster, you are practising Yoga. Sooner than later, all people tend towards interiorization, as it is the process of samskaric evolution itself. It is the process of human evolution itself.
Samkaras evolve from exteriorisation to interiorization over the course of the Jiva’s life cycle. This does not mean one life, but as many lifetimes as a Jiva needs to exhaust and spend all its samskaric baggage. When the Jiva’s life cycle begins, old samskaras produce experiences which further produce new samskaras and this process goes on and on. However, a point comes when there is a conscious realisation of what is actually happening. Then the process of unwinding begins, like the withdrawing back, the unspooling of a telescope. It begins with interiorization. That is the first step. When a person leans towards interiorization, it means their inward samskaras became active and the journey to unwinding has begun.
You see, when our outward samskaras are fully ugra (active), our inward ones are susupta (dormant). When the inward ones are active, the outward ones are dormant. You could also see how the fight towards exteriority or interiority can make either one tanu (weak), or vicchinda (intercepted).
Not that exteriorised samskaras are bad and interiorized ones are good. Both have their place. Experiences in the outer world are necessary to inform us that they will not make us truly happy. We learn this law by engaging with the world. Interiorization comes after exteriorisation and is necessary for the Yogic process to take conscious hold in the individual. Eventually, all samskaras are undesirable and the aim of the Yogic process and of human life is their complete annihilation.
This is because samskaras are the source of all suffering.
Of all types: exteriorised, interiorised, dormant, weak, active or intercepted. The goal of human life is the annihilation of all suffering and the attainment of unprecedented hyper-bliss. It is also the goal of Yoga, which is a simply put, a life conscious of the Yogic process happening in the background for all of us humans.