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    abhiniveśa

    Root: bhī Devanāgarī: अभिनिवेश Translation: tenacity; the will to stay alive, survival instinct, clinging to life, fear of death; desire for continuity; instinctive clinging to worldly life and bodily enjoyments and the fear that one might be cut off from all of them by death Related concepts:kleśa, avidyā, asmitā, rāga, dveṣa, mṛtyu, bhaya, āśis

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 2: 3 , 9


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    Commentaries around

    “Bhakti Dhyānam uses Japa to build a bridge
    over the fear bringing streams of the mind.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 28

    “Anguish arises from the illusion feeding
    the conflation of I-ness and Am-ness,
    the consequences of pleasure and suffering,
    and underpins the fear of not feeling alive.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 3

    “The outer layer of meditative reflection,
    as in Dhāraṇā, can reveal psychic symptoms,
    which we might compare to the branches
    of a tree, such as confused attractions,
    confused aversions and the fear of loss.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verses 7-9

    “Abhiniveśā is the extra-ordinairy
    instinctive urge to survive at any cost.
    No one is spared. In a way,
    it is a dislike about one’s death.”
    – T Krishnamacharya’s on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

    “Survival is self–prevailing
    and constantly underpins,
    even in the wise person.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

    “Āsana alone can be a support for
    our outer relationship with living.
    However, can Āsana alone be a support
    for our inner relationship with dying?
    Especially as our disposition towards
    clinging to life is continuous, as well as
    being deeply buried within our psyche.
    This is why Yoga offers vehicles beyond Āsana
    for the inner and especially the final journey.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

    “Pratyāhāra is not feeding the tendency of the Citta
    to automatically form a positive, negative, or neutral
    identification with whatever stimuli the senses present to it.
    From that, we can begin to understand how their external gathering
    activities stimulate our conscious and especially, unconscious choices.
    From this, we can begin to understand how the impact
    of this sensory knowing can lead us to travel in different directions
    and trigger different levels of response, often without us being really
    conscious of how deeply their input stimulates our psychic activities.
    From these responses, there will be the inevitable re-actions,
    again quite possibly unconscious and multilevelled,
    according to our psychic history in terms of our memory,
    habit patternings and deeper memory processes.
    From those initial insight, we can begin to understand
    and interact in how we can resist unconsciously slipping
    into the trance states that can so often culminate with
    the  Kleśa manifesting fully in the entrancing dance of
    Udārā Rāga, or Udārā Dveṣa, or Udārā Abhiniveśa,
    the potent and profligate children of Avidyā.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “What is the role of Dharma
    in the face of survival?”
    – TKV Desikachar speaking with his
    senior Western students London 1998

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