The kleshas or afflictions
This may be seen simply as recognizing certain character traits based on amateur psychology.
I believe I am absolutely consciously aware of these things (kleshas and the reasons we suffer) yet I do not know how to stop submitting to them.
Since the kleshas are engendered by a persistent error, at root mistaking prakriti for purusha, or attributing the essential characteristics of purusha to one or another aspect of prakriti, ...
The descent through consciousness involves mastery of samskaras and overcoming the kleshas, and constitutes an effort of will perhaps greater than mastery of the eight limbs.
ignorance; mistaking the false for the true, or vice versa; one of the Pancha Kleshas (five 'hindrances' to spiritual growth); said to be the 'mother klesha' from which all others spring forth; the root cause of all suffering.
Ayurveda ...
So when practicing, being taught, or teaching asana we can more specifically call upon even more specific modalities toward this end such as opening up the nadis, by removing the conflicts and obstructions (kleshas, samskaras, knots, imbalances, ...
All Kleshas (afflictions) and the three kinds of Taapa will vanish. The Yogi experiences various visions, powers, bliss and knowledge. When it reaches Sahasrara Chakra in the brain, the Yogi gets the maximum knowledge, Bliss, power and Siddhis.
 See also: Yoga, Klesha, Ananda, Mind, Body
  
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