dvesha

Dvesha is the push away from past painful experiences. Sūtra 2.8 builds it exactly like its twin: aversion follows pain, the same way rāga follows pleasure. So this is not really about the thing being avoided. It is about a memory of how something felt, still steering our words, thoughts, and actions, long after the thing itself is gone. That is why dvesha can attach to a place, a season, or a kind of conversation. Something happened there once. Dvesha is "wanting to get rid of," whereas rāga is "wanting to get." Both are the mind leaning, and the leaning is the problem more than the direction.