AsravaH [ Asru-ap ] 1 Pain, affliction, distress. 2 Flowing, running. 3 Discharge, emission. 4 Fault, transgression. 5 The foam on boiling rice. 6 (With Jainas) The impulse called yoga or attention which the soul participates in the movement of its various bodies; it is defined as the ‘action of the senses which impels the soul towards external objects’; it is good or evil according as it is directed towards good or evil objects.