Yoga Sutra II-7 - SUKHANUSAYI RAGAH- Attachment is that which follows identification with pleasurable experiencesYoga Sutra II- 8 -DUHKHANUSAYI DVESAH - Aversion is that which follows identification with painful experiences.
Sukha, a Sanskrit word in the Wikipedia is defined as
“happiness" or "ease" or "pleasure" or "bliss." Dukha in sanskrit is defined as "uneasy". Swami Satchidananda comments on these two sutras together (as they are two sides of the same coin). He reminds us "that happiness is always in us as the true Self", however "We attach ourselves to pleasure because we expect happiness from it". This pleasure is from outside of us. Things that make us unhappy and are painful we attempt to avoid. He says that attachment and aversion are impediments to the spiritual path. Swami Satchidananda paints a picture of the musk deer with the analogy of the musk being compared to the happiness we all have inside and running around looking for it on the outside.
In the book "How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, for both of these sutras are basically similar agreeing (with what Swami Satchidananda says above) that these are obstacles to enlightenment."The spiritual aspirant must not love the things of this world too much; but he must not hate them either." Aversion is a form of bondage which ties us to what we hate of fear. They explain that this is the reason that what you have an aversion to will show up again and again in various aspects of our lives as long we resist it.
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