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    dveṣa

    Devanāgarī: द्वेष Translation: aversion; hatred; animosity; dislike; repugnance Opposite words:rāga, uparāga, kāma Related concepts:kleśa, asmitā, abhiniveśa, avidyā

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 2: 3 , 8

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 3: 34


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    Commentaries around

    “All these Kleśa are variable in their potency.
    They can be so weak, that they hardly matter.
    Sometimes they take a feeble form,
    when they can be easily contained.
    If not they rise to dominance.
    When in domination, only one takes over.
    For example in the most evolved stage
    when Rāga is dominant, other Kleśa
    such as Dveṣa are not apparent.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 4

    “Better not to mistake the feelings
    arising from the movement away from
    something undesirable, for the
    feelings arising from the movement
    towards something desirable.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 7-8

    “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

    “What is unpleasant is not desired.
    The response of the mind is then to move away from it.
    Whether in fact such a step did prevent Duḥkha is not immediately evident.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 8

    “Aversion is expecting suffering.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 8

    “Dveṣa is the consequence
    of Duḥkha from such as,
    getting what you are not expecting or,
    getting other than what you are expecting.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 8

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

    “Duḥkha is the Space in the Heart
    feeling constricted because of
    ‘not getting what I want’, or
    ‘getting what I don’t want’.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 16

    “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

    “Each person has two forces Rāga and Dveṣa.
    They are there to serve you, not you them.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Bhagavad Gītā Chapter Three verse 34

    “There is always Kleśa, it just depends where we are
    in ourselves in terms of a spectrum of being and doing.
    Thus Kleśa can express itself within the spectrum of being
    as either a state of Rāga Kleśa or a state of Dveṣa Kleśa or,
    as happens mostly, somewhere twixt the extremes of the two.
    Either way according to TKV Desikachar’s teaching,
    progress is not possible without the power of these drives,
    they are the horses that pull the chariot.
    As to which of the two extremes we find ourselves
    veering towards depends on our skill as a charioteer,
    coupled with our understanding of the nature of the horses,
    as well as the nature of the ‘food’ we ‘choose’ to feed them on.”
    – Paul Harvey on Bhagavad Gītā Chapter Three verse 34

    “Attachment comes through pleasure. There’s nothing wrong with pleasure, but when we no longer have what gave us pleasure, or if there is some threat of losing it, attachment often appears.

    Negation is a tendency to resist or reject after something bad has happened. It could be a fact, an idea or whatever, but if we were not comfortable with it, we resist. There is a strong relationship between attachment and negation, like heads and tails of a coin. Strangely, the more we are attached to something the more there is a likelihood to reject it later – when what we were expecting is not forthcoming heads becomes tails!

    Fear is a very fundamental emotion which seems to have some special energy that can make it survive on its own. Fear exists independently of objects, they just give it something to fix on, like the wolf in Western fairy tales. There are two types of fear : fear of something, an earthquake, an illness, a wolf etc., and fear of losing something, a job, a loved one, prestige etc.

    Fear, negation, attachment and association either alone or together create the conditions for suffering to erupt again and again. Suffering appears, disappears and re-appears forcing us to admit that something is missing and this pushes us to seek how to find it.”
    – TKV Desikachar from unedited manuscript for ‘What are We Seeking?’

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