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Our ability to act on our intentions is limited by our capacity to integrate them into ourselves.

• Sattvic person: Has an abundance of mental equilibrium, comprehends well, follows their path steadily and consistently, and progresses quickly.
• Rajasic person: Full of hyperactivity, twists facts to fit preconceptions, and convinces themselves they are progressing when they are in fact merely reinforcing ahamkara's dependencies.
• Tamasic person: Abundant inert Tamas guides their being; they ignore clear evidence of the need to progress and dig in where they are in hope of remaining there.

• Brumhana (nourishing)
• Sheetala (cooling)

It is termed sattva, while some call it chetas.

— Charaka Samhita, Sutra Sthana — Fundamental Principles, Chapter 8: Sense Organ Discipline & Ethical Conduct (Indriyopakramaniya Adhyaya / इन्द्रियोपक्रमणीय अध्याय)

The sattva sara persons are endowed with memory (smriti), devotion (bhakti), are grateful (kritajna), knowledgeable (prajna), cleanliness (shuchi), enthusiastic (mahotsaha), skillful (daksha), courageous (dhira), fighting in battle with valor, free from anxiety (tyaktavishada), having well-organized activities and highly intellectual abilities engaged in virtuous act.

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 8: Physician's Approach to Disease (Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana / रोगभिषग्जितीय विमान)

One should also be examined in respect of psyche/mental strength(sattva).

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 8: Physician's Approach to Disease (Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana / रोगभिषग्जितीय विमान)

Sattva is known as mind, which controls the body functions by conjunction with the self.

— Charaka Samhita, Vimana Sthana — Specific Medical Principles, Chapter 8: Physician's Approach to Disease (Rogabhishagjitiya Vimana / रोगभिषग्जितीय विमान)

To enter into the embryo, the sattva (mind) does not come from another world.

— Charaka Samhita, Sharira Sthana — Human Body & Embryology, Chapter 3: Minor Embryology (Khuddika Garbhavakranti Sharira / खुड्डिक गर्भावक्रान्ति शरीर)

Pitta is hot, liquid, yellow, blue, predominantly Sattva Guna, and has pungent and bitter tastes.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

From that arose Ahankara (ego), which is also threefold due to the qualities of Rajas, Sattva, and Tamas.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

From the Sattva-Rajas aspect of Ahankara, the ten sense organs and the mind (Manas) were born.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

From the Tamas-Sattva aspect of Ahankara arose the five Tanmatras (subtle elements).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Purva Khanda, Chapter 5: Kaladikakhyanam (Description of Kalas etc.)

Musalyadi Churna [for Klaivya/impotence]: the powder of Musali tuber (Chlorophytum borivilianum), combined with Guduchi Sattva (extract of Tinospora cordifolia), Vanari, Gokshura (Tribulus terrestris), Shalmali (Bombax ceiba), sugar, and Amalaki (Emblica officinalis) — all stirred in ghee and milk, should be given.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Madhyama Khanda, Chapter 6: Churnakalpana (Powder Preparations - Extended)

Mental constitution (sattva) is that which renders one unflinching in adversity, prosperity, and during procedures (verse 37).

— Sushruta Samhita, Sutra Sthana, Chapter 35: Aaturopakramaniya Adhyaya - On the Method of Treating Patients

She is self-begotten and connotes the three fundamental or primary virtues of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sharira Sthana, Chapter 1: Sarva-Bhuta Chinta Sariram - The Science of Being in General

This Mahan or intellection should be likewise considered as partaking of the three fundamental attributes (Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas) of the latent (Avyakta) or original nature.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sharira Sthana, Chapter 1: Sarva-Bhuta Chinta Sariram - The Science of Being in General

Of the Purusha and the Prakriti, only the latter is non-conscious and possesses the three fundamental qualities of Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sharira Sthana, Chapter 1: Sarva-Bhuta Chinta Sariram - The Science of Being in General

But the Purusha (units or atoms of consciousness), devoid of the threefold virtues of Sattva etc.

— Sushruta Samhita, Sharira Sthana, Chapter 1: Sarva-Bhuta Chinta Sariram - The Science of Being in General