asmita
अस्मिता asmitaEgoism; the false identification of the self with mind and body; the second of the five kleshas.
Where this term appears
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
…es it as accompanied by forms it names vitarka , vichara , ananda and asmita (1.17), which the commentators read as a graded refinement of the object of focus, from a gross physical thing, to its subtle constit…
- Why action binds Treatise
…leshas are five, and Patanjali lists them at 2.3: avidya , ignorance; asmita , the sense of being a separate I; raga , attraction; dvesha , aversion; and abhinivesha , the clinging to life and the fear of its e…