Aversion is that which accompanies pain.

Dveṣa is the compulsive rejection that arises after experiencing pain. Like attachment, it is not the experience itself, but the trace it leaves.

Each painful experience leaves a residue of aversion that makes us avoid, flee, or reject similar situations, even when they no longer represent a real danger.

Rāga and dveṣa are two sides of the same coin: both are born from past experiences and both limit our freedom in the present.

The person trapped in dveṣa lives avoiding, building walls. Their life narrows as they try to protect themselves from pain.

Yoga does not propose insensitivity, but freedom: the ability to respond to the present without the chains of the past.