sattvika-bhava
सात्त्विकभाव sāttvika-bhāvaThe involuntary bodily signs of feeling (trembling, tears, horripilation, change of voice) which cannot be feigned; the sattvika mode of abhinaya, and the surest evidence of genuine emotion.
Where this term appears
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
The tradition counts forty-nine emotional states in all: the eight stable ones, thirty-three transient ones, and a third class of eight, the sattvika-bhavas , the involuntary signs the body cannot fake.