Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Sattva

सत्त्व · sattva

clarity; lightness; goodness

The quality of light and balance. When sattva prevails the mind is clear, calm and able to understand. It binds too, Krishna warns, through attachment to happiness and to knowledge. Chapters 17 and 18 sort food, giving, discipline, action and understanding by which quality marks them, and sattva is the kind that is done rightly and without self-interest.

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Bhagavad Gita 14.6 · Bhagavad Gita 14.11 · Bhagavad Gita 14.14 · Bhagavad Gita 18.20