पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras think we feel pleasure or pain. 7. सुखानुशयी रागः ॥ ७॥ sukhanushayi raagah Attachment is that which dwells on pleasure. We find pleasure in certain things, and the mind, like a current, flows towards them, and that, following the pleasure centre, as it were, is attachment. We are never attached to anyone in whom we do not find pleasure. We find pleasure in very queer things sometimes, but the definition is just the same; wherever we find pleasure, there we are attached. 8. दुःखानुशयी द्वेषः ॥ ८॥ duhkhanushayi dveshah Aversion is that which dwells on pain. That, which gives us pain we immediately seek to get away from. 9. स्वरसवाही विदुषोऽपि तथारूढोऽभिनिवेशः ॥ ९॥ svarasavahi vidushopi tatharoodho bhiniveshah Flowing through its own nature, and established even in the learned, is the clinging to life. This clinging to life you see manifested in every animal, and upon it many attempts have been made to build the theory of a future life, because men like their lives so much that they desire a future life also. Of course it goes without saying that 59