Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c12.s3.t4.46

v2.c12.s3.t4.46

The *Yoga-sūtra* specifies five hindrances: the darkness of unwisdom, self-assertion, lust, hate and attachment. The darkness of ignorance is the field of the others. It is exhibited when what is temporary, impure, distressful and mundane, is identified as being eternal, pure, joyful and spiritual respectively. Self-assertion comes from thinking of the Seer and the instrument of vision as forming one self. Lust is the result from the sense of enjoyment. Hate results from the sense of pain. Attachment is the desire towards life, even in the wise, carried forward by its own energy.