abhiniveśa

Devanāgarī: अभिनिवेश Translation: tenacity; the will to stay alive, survival instinct, clinging to life, fear of death, 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

Appears in

Yoga Sūtra:

Chapter 2: 3 , 9

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Commentaries around

“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 commentary to
Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

“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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