Patanjali Yoga Sutra: II - 9

Afraid to let go

Swarasavahi Vidushaha Api Tatha Aarudhaha Abhiniveshaha
First there is a false imagination that we have something - life to begin with, loved ones, property, name, fame, material possessions, beauty, good looks, knowledge....They are all travelling in us by their own force and essence. Particularly what we consider as our life, has a habit of preserving itself. Even the learned and the wise who have imbibed the non-duality of existence are not exempt from this fear. This fear of loss of life, loved ones, property and material possessions, name or fame, all born out of the primary delusion of Dwaita - two-ness - or a separate existence is unwarranted. It is a Klesha or an impurity which is a hindrance in the path of self-realisation. Practice of Kriya Yoga - Tapas, Swadhyaya and Ishwara Pranidhana (first Sutra of the second chapter) helps remove this impurity of the struggle to preserve and protect what doesn't belong to you in the first place. - Swahilya Shambhavi

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: II - 7 & 8

Attachment and Hatred

Sukkhanushayi Ragaha

Duhkhanushayi Dweshaha

Out of the five kleshas or impurities that cloud our consciousness, are raga and dwesha. Where attention goes, energy flows. When a particular object person or situation gives us pleasure, our energy travels along with the mind that gets attached to it This is Raga. It comes with Avidya or ignorance that we are separate from the other. Since we think we are separate when we go through a happy time, say while eating a chocolate, we fail to realise that the chocolate has not given us any new happiness, but just triggered the happiness within. With this wrong understanding, we get attached to the chocolate and have more and more of it. This leads us to decay and that is Raga or attachment. It follows our attachment to all that gives us happiness and pleasure.
Opposite of Raga is Dwesha. The more we love someting, the more we hate something. While pleasure is the basis of getting attached, we shudder or run away from that which is unpleasant, bitter or has given us an experience of sadness. When we are averse to or hate something, the balance of energy and mind is tipped outside and we lose our centred state of being within us, which is the true reason for our happiness. - Swahilya Shambhavi.

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: II - 6

The seer is not the seen

Drigdarshanashaktyorekatmateve Asmita
In this Sadhana Padaha, the chapter of practice, we first saw that Kriya Yoga removes impurities. The first impurity was Avidya or ignorance of the real self, which is consciousness and not the tools of expression of consciousness, namely the body, mind and intellect. Consciousness may be likened to the ink, while the body, mind and intellect are like the outer cover, tip and inner tube that holds the ink in a ball point pen.
Now, in this Sutra, Patanjali says - out of ignorance or Avidya about our true self - i.e. consciousness, imagining the seen objects, people and situations, our own body, mind, intellect and Prana Shakti and thinking all that is either 'I' or myself or mine is Asmita or Ego. It is alright to have an ego. It is alright to have a pen. But the problem comes when we think that we are the body, mind and intellect. It is as wrong as to think that the letters are written by the pen, forgetting that it is the ink that flows through the pen.
This Sutra says that, of the two, the seer and the seen, the mind, instead of realising the presence of the seer, that sees through it, thinks of it as the sen. Wne I look out of the window, it is I who see what is outside and not the window. Same way, I look through the eyes, I perceive through the mind and I am different from the eyes and other parts of the body, the mind and all its thoughts and that intellect which is the officer who segregates the different thought files and takes action on each file.
Practice of Yoga can help remove this impurity of wrong understanding of the body, mind and intellect to be one self. - Swahilya Shambhavi.