Explore the five mental states discussed in the Patanjali Yoga Sutras and their impact on our well-being. Discover how attachment, desire, aversion, hatred, greed, ego, and we can lead to pain or not pain, with long-term consequences. Learn why expecting happiness from the world is seen as a misery, while turning towards eternal life is a blessing. Understand how pain can be a blessing and lead to progress, and how variations in the mind are caused by valid knowledge, erroneous knowledge, fanciful ideas, sleep, and memory.