vasana
वासना vasanaA latent tendency or drive formed from the accumulation of past impressions (samskaras), inclining a person toward certain desires and acts.
Where this term appears
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
It reaches into you and reveals an emotion that was already there, the latent trace, the vasana , of love or grief or wonder that every heart carries as a seed.
- Runanubandha, the debts we are born into Treatise
…unanubandha from floating off into the merely mystical. The bond is a vasana .
- The engine Treatise
That hardened tendency is a vasana : a latent disposition, a drive that leans the whole person in a direction before any particular choice is made.
- What holds the charge Treatise
For Patanjali, what carries karma forward is the karmashaya , the deposit of action lodged in the deep mind, ripening through the samskaras and vasanas the sixth chapter described.