The statues opened, and the Bodhi-sattva emerged in bright rays of light (compare Koeppen, i.
Even when the worship of other Bodhi-sattvas was introduced, Maitreya retained the distinction of being the only Bodhi-sattva worshipped by all Buddhist countries, whether in the South or in the North.
Until his final birth, however, a Bodhi-sattva is a being in whom true knowledge is rather latent and undeveloped than perfected.
Arhatship under the Bodhi-tree, and in so attaining passed from the condition of a Bodhi-sattva to that of the highest of all Arhats--a supreme Buddha.
Bodhi-sattva by laying his hands upon him, so that by virtue of this benediction, he brought forth the prayer 'Om ma[n.
Hiouen Thsang relates that there is a Vihara at Kapila-vastu indicating the spot 'where the Bodhi-sattva descended spiritually into the womb of his mother,' and that there is a representation of this scene drawn in the Vihara.
Fa-hien records that he saw in Northern India a wooden image of Maitreya Bodhi-sattva eighty cubits high, which on fast days emitted a brilliant light.
All meet here to worship the incarnated representative of the Bodhi-sattva (Avalokite[.
In fact Gautama remained a Bodhi-sattva until he was thirty-four or thirty-five, when he attained perfect enlightenment and Buddhahood.
These, too, every Bodhi-sattva had to practise before he could attain Buddhahood.
He is not an incarnation of a mere ordinary Bodhi-sattva (p.
This is indeed the earliest state from which all the rest of the world has sprung forth; and it is a state in which the stuff of sattva predominates.
It also describes sattva as being light and illuminating, rajas as of the nature of energy and causing motion, and tamas as heavy and obstructing.
The individual aha.mkâras and senses are related to the individual buddhis by the developing sattva determinations from which they had come into being.
When the sattva is at its height this conglomeration ceases.
His body is of pure sattva quality which can never be touched by ignorance.
The first evolute of the prak.rti is generated by a preponderance of the sattva (intelligence-stuff).
The buddhi and its sattva evolutes of aha.mkâra and the senses are so related that though they are different from buddhi in their functions, they are all comprehended in the buddhi, and mark only its gradual differentiations and modes.
Further development with the help of rajas on the line of sattva development could only take place when the buddhi as mind determined itself in specific ways.
Rajas and tamas represent the bad states of the mind and sattva the good ones.
Footnote 92: The excess of Sattva in the Yogin would not enable him to rise to omniscience if he did not possess an intelligent principle independent of Sattva.
The whole passage, we reply, does not aim at setting forth the fact that the sattva is an enjoyer, but rather the fact that the intelligent individual soul is not an enjoyer, but is of the nature of Brahman.
But how can, on the above interpretation, the non-intelligent sattva (i.
All pleasure is due to harmonious vibration, and that quality of harmonious inter-related vibrations is the quality that Sattva gives to matter.
Now those effects can be connected with their causes only in so far as the internal organ of a person possessing sattva and so on undergoes modifications.
Sattva and so on--which constitute the distinctive elements of the causal substance--are the causes of the various nature of the effects.
Sattva and so on are the causes of the lightness, light, &c.
For sattva and so on are attributes of substances, but not themselves substances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sattva" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
