bhava
भाव bhāvaIn devotion, the emotional mode or relationship a devotee holds toward the chosen deity. The bhakti tradition names five primary bhavas: shanta (serene), dasya (servant), sakhya (friend), vatsalya (parental) and madhurya (the lover's).
Where this term appears
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
The Kularnava Tantra ('the ocean of the Kula') is one of the most important and most quoted scriptures of the Kaula school of Tantra, a comprehensive manual of the…
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Twelve bhavas , houses, counted from the lagna, governing the departments of a life.
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
He names five primary bhavas , emotional relationships the devotee may hold toward the ishta.
- Who is Bhairava? Deities
…ava is the one who makes the frightened soul cry out in the terror of bhava , worldly existence, and who, in answer to that cry, reveals himself in the heart and grants abhaya , the absence of all fear.
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
… them and take a part, loving Krishna in one of the settled moods, or bhavas , as a servant loves a master, a friend a friend, a parent a child, or a lover the beloved.
- Tat tvam asi: three readings Philosophy
This rests on Ramanuja's signature relation, sharira-shariri bhava , the body-and-soul relation.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
…kshmi, reached by the yogis in meditation, and it ends: vande vishnum bhava-bhaya-haram , I bow to Vishnu, the remover of the fear of existence.
- Dakshinamurti: Shiva as the silent guru Deities
… to Dakshinamurti, salutation. — Dakṣiṇāmūrti Stotram, dhyāna-śloka 4 Bhava-roga.