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Yoga Sutras 2.7

Patanjali, explained by Swami Vivekananda

सुखानुशयी रागः ॥

sukhānuśayī rāgaḥ

Attachment is that which dwells on pleasure.

In plain words: Attachment is the mind holding on to what gave it pleasure. Wherever we find pleasure, we become attached.

Yoga Sutras 2.7
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Swami Vivekananda explains

We find pleasure in certain things, and the mind like a current flows towards them; and this following the pleasure centre, as it were, is what is called attachment. We are never attached where we do not find pleasure. We find pleasure in very queer things sometimes, but the principle remains: wherever we find pleasure, there we are attached.