Dukh ka Kaaran

अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशः क्लेशाः

Everyone experiences misery in life but why this misery...

why this dukkha......Kyun...aakhir Kyun....

Is sawaal ka jawab bhi hai hamarey paas. What causes this misery -

Mr. Patanjali ( Apney Rishi) has given some sutras...sutras boley to threads....in threads ko pakado aur misery se bahar nikalo....

The sutras by patanjali tell us - There is misery but why this misery arises

Misery arises because of 5 reasons - These reasons are Kleshas...

1. Avidya

2. Asmita

3. Raga

4. Dvesha

5. Abhinivesha

1. Avidya -When your consciousness is filled with ignorance, there is restlessness. There is unhappiness and suffering. Ignorance is giving importance to something which is not important; that which is not worthy of that importance - thinking that something that is changing as permanent, imagining something as joyful which is not joyful, considering something impuere to be pure etc. 


Someone may have said something unpleasant to you. There were just these words that came out of his mouths and vanished. But to regard them as permanent and brooding over them is ignorance. Someone's comment about you is a fleeting wave of thought or energy which came and went. He may not have the opinion later. But you keep that ever in your mind a his opinion about you, which is not true. This is one example of ignorance.

Socho ki aap jungle mein jaa rahe ho...andheri raat hai....hawa chal rahi hai....shhhooohoooooooo...ssssshooooooooooo ( Sound effect)...shoooooooo hooooo !!! Yakayak.......aap ko saamney ek rassi dikhti hai lekin aap ussey kala naag samajh lete ho....Darr ke maarey kaampney lagte ho....

Why this happens? Because of ignorance. You don't know the real nature of the "snake" and hence you take false thing as true. This ignorance is the root cause of the remaining four disturbances.

2. Asmita - " Me" of "I" - This feeling of "Me" or "I" is the second cause - Asmita is what people think about you, what you want from them, how you could take advantage of them, whether they consider you to be good or bad. 


Your own idea of "Me", "Mine" not being one with the existence, having a separate feeling and identitiy, or having a superiority or inferiority complex gives you misery. In fact, all those people who consider themselves intelligent and everybody else fools, know deep down that they are bigger fools. To avoid thinking of their foolishness, they consider everybody else crazy or foolish.

Ek din aap apne Ghar se hasi khushi nikalte ho...sab kuch dhinka chika hota hai....meditation bhi ki hoti hai...saatvik vichaar hote hain....aur aap sochte ho....Main hi brahman hoon....main hi satchitt anand hoon...Aho Niranjano...aur yahi sochte hue aap ek local bus mein chad jaatey ho...wahan galti se ek motey aadmi ka pair aapkey pair par aa jaata hai....aur aap sab kuch bhool jaatey ho......

The moment this happens you forget that you are Bramhan. You forget that all the universe is one. Your ego awakens. You identify yourself with your body and angrily utter some ugly words. This is Asmita.

3. Raaga - A Strong craving for anything - Raga means a feeling of anger born when pleasure is prohibited. 


aap bus mein kahin jaa rahe hotey ho...and suddenly aapko ek khali seat dikhti hai...aap baithney ke liye lapaktey ho....but..... just then a fellow passenger grabs it instead. Suddenly anger rushes in your mind and you start arguing with him. This is Raga. Attachment to the Seat ( Kursi )..Netaon mein yeh jyaada paaya jaata hai :)

Attachments (raga) arise from our previous experiences of pleasure and happiness.

4. Dvesha - A strong aversion or hatred for anything - Dwesha refers to aversion or hatred when you taste sorrow. 


Aapkey office mein aapkey colleagues aapki galti ke baare mein aapkey Boss ko batatey hain...Boss aap par chillata hai and warns of a strict action if you repeat your mistake. You feel hurt and start hating your colleagues. This is Dwesha.

Aversions (dvesha, or dvesa) emerge from previous experiences of pain and suffering. 

Over time, our sense of self-identity is largely formed by a long list of such likes and dislikes. We define ourselves as a collection of our previous emotional experiences.

5. Abhinivesha - Fear or self-love, or will to live - It's often translated as either "clinging to life," or "fear of death.It is the desire to hold on to one’s own state as a being, a unique being. The fear of being completely erased, of being annihilated is terrifying. The addiction to life experiences, to the gratifications that different life experiences present, have a strong hold. One cannot even imagine not being without them and as a result one stays attached to what is known and fear the unknown. The idea that there are things and situations beyond our control, the very control that has helped us stay in existence, is unsettling in the least. . Even the learned ones, with all their intellectual pursuits, are not free of this attitude to hold on to, to cling to life. 

When Yudhisthira, the wise Pandav prince in the epic Mahabharata, is asked about the greatest marvel, his answer was, ‘each day, death strikes and we live as though we are immortal. That is the greatest marvel’.Irrespective of the inevitability of death, we do face, throughout our lives, little deaths in the form of lost relationships, lost experiences and lost places. These little deaths are also times when we have to face the inevitability of changes that take place throughout our lives.

Abhinivesha means clinging to life. We all have fear of death. We love this life so much that even a thought of death scares us. It is often said that death is not bad but the fear of death is.


A 90 year old person who has enjoyed his life to the fullest still feels that he should remain alive. This is Abhinivesha. The Abhinivesha exists because of our attachment with this body and world around us. Except for a few advanced Yogis and Sanyasins Abhinivesha can be seen in every individual living being.


So these are the Kleshas


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अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशः क्लेशाः

All these Kleshas are to be destroyed only when they are subtle. Once they become gross they rule you. To understand this observe yourself whenever you are angry. You will find that anger "builds" up and at some point it bursts. If you learn to destroy the anger when it is just "building up" then you can get rid of it easily. The same thing can be said about other disturbances also. You must control them when they are in subtle state else they will control you.

The lord in you is free from these five kleshas. The consciousness deep down in you is devoid of them. You may be miserable or craving for something. But if you really go to the core of your existence , you are free from it. Outwardly, you may be hating somebody, but in the core of your existence there is no hatred. There is fear and ignorance only at the circumference. At the core, there is no fear or ignorance. There is no ' you' there.

When these five kleshas are eliminated even at the circumference, then whatever is  at the inner core becomes very eminent. The lordship in you blossoms and lord in you is manifested.

And the elimination only happens through meditation......and other means...to know about the means, start reading patanjali yoga sutras....!!