Five Categories of Rati-bhāva
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2022-07-27

Definition of rati from Sanskrit Dictionary: 
1. f. pleasure, enjoyment, delight in, fondness for (locative case or compound; ratim-with āp-, labh-, upa-labh-, adhi-gam-, vidkṛ-or bandh-and locative case: "to find pleasure in") etc.

2. f. the pleasure of love, sexual passion or union, amorous enjoyment (often personified as one of the two wives of kāma-deva-, together with prīti- (q.v) etc. 

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• Vibhāva: "Causes relishing of rati (bhāva). Vibhāva takes the form of ālambana (support) of two types, and uddīpana (stimuli)."

• Anubhāva: "Expresses the bhāva within the heart. They are predominantly external transformations."

• Sattvika-bhāva: "When the heart becomes overwhelmed by rati or bhāva in relation to the iṣṭa-devatā, either directly or indirectly."

• Vyābhicāri-bhāva: "Bhāvas that move (caranti) against the sthāyī-bhāva, while assisting it in a distinctive way (viśeṣena abhimukhyena)."

• Sthāyī-bhāva: "That bhāva which, controlling other favorable bhāvas such as hāsya, and contradictory bhāvas such as krodha, presides in the heart like an efficient ruler, is called the sthāyī-bhāva."

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