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sattva
[ suht-vuh ]
noun
- (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) goodness or purity, one of the three fundamental qualities of matter said to be present in everything at varying levels.
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Origin of sattva1
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Example Sentences
Thus "sight," or the power of seeing, is a modification of the quality of sattva unobstructed by rajas and tamas.
These, too, every Bodhi-sattva had to practise before he could attain Buddhahood.
Until his final birth, however, a Bodhi-sattva is a being in whom true knowledge is rather latent and undeveloped than perfected.
He represents the incarnation of a higher Bodhi-sattva or deified saint, but he sometimes claims to be an incarnated Buddha.
I, too, in my former existence of a Bodhi-sattva found it efficacious in securing victory.
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