071 Raga (5 Kleshas)

This is the third of our five-part series on the kleshas — the afflictions Patanjali identified in the Yoga Sutras as the root causes of human suffering. Today we're looking at Raga — often translated as 'attachment', but also craving or grasping. That magnetic pull toward the things that have given us pleasure... the belief that this person, this object, experience, or feeling... is what will finally make us whole or happy and therefore we try to keep a hold of it. Raga doesn't announce itself loudly. It quietly shapes our choices, our moods, our sense of self. And because it masquerades as preferences, relationships or happiness, it can be one of the trickier kleshas to spot.

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