Kleśa ( sa, क्लेश, also ''klesha'') is a term from Indian philosophy and

yoga Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consci ...

, meaning a "poison". The third of the second chapter of

Patañjali Patanjali ( sa, पतञ्जलि, Patañjali), also called Gonardiya or Gonikaputra, was a Hindu author, mystic and philosopher. Very little is known about him, and while no one knows exactly when he lived; from analysis of his works it i ...

's '' Yoga sūtras'' explicitly identifies Five Poisons (): Translated into English, these five () s or afflictions () are: * Ignorance (in the form of a misapprehension about reality) (), * egoism (in the form of an erroneous identification of the Self with the intellect) (), * attachment (), * aversion (), and * fear of death (which is derived from clinging ignorantly to life) (). The 24th sutra of the first chapter, Samadhi Pada, Patanjali describes a purusha free of kleshas:

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