{"id":149,"date":"2012-02-18T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T23:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-08-20T00:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T00:52:42","slug":"svabhavat-swabhavat-or-svabhava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/svabhavat-swabhavat-or-svabhava\/","title":{"rendered":"Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat, Sw\u00e2bh\u00e2vat or Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat, Sw\u00e2bh\u00e2vat, or Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va, according to H.P.B. in her Secret Doctrine may deserve the same type of study that previously done for Fohat. i.e. where does it appears, with what meaning(s), according to &#8220;conventional theosophy&#8221;.<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/downloads\/BookofDzyan\/Svabhavat\/2012-02-17%20Studies%20on%20Svabhavat.pdf\"><strong>document<\/strong><\/a> was started and uploaded for the sake of collecting inputs.<\/p>\n<p> According to H.P.B. in her Secret Doctrine :<\/p>\n<p> a) Spelling : 3 different spellings are found<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">: <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SD \u2013 Vol I,<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">pp.3,28,31,46,52,53,60,61,85,98,635, Vol II, p.115<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sw\u00e2bh\u00e2vat<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0: SD \u2013 Vol I, pp.83,84,661,<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0: SD \u2013 Vol I, pp.571<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>b) What is sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat\/sw\u00e2bh\u00e2vat\/sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va :  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the active condition of the one infinite and unknown Essence which exists from all eternity (DS &#8211; I. p.3)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the secondary stage of the Prabhavapyaya (DS &#8211; I. p.46)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the plastic essence that fills the universe, the root of all things (DS &#8211; I. p.61)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the Buddhistic concrete aspect of the abstraction called in Hindu philosophy Mulaprakriti (DS &#8211; I. p.61)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">In the Ekasloka-Shastra of Nagarjuna (the Lung-shu of China) called by the Chinese the Yih-shu-lu-kia-lun, it is said that the original word of Yeu is &#8220;Being&#8221; or &#8220;Subhava,&#8221; &#8220;the Substance giving substance to itself,&#8221; also explained by him as meaning &#8221; without action and with action,&#8221; &#8220;the nature which has no nature of its own.&#8221; . Subhava, from which <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat<\/strong><\/span>,is composed of two words: Su &#8220;fair,&#8221; &#8220;handsome,&#8221; &#8220;good&#8221;; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Sva<\/strong><\/span>, &#8220;self&#8221;; and <strong>bhava<\/strong>, &#8220;being&#8221; or &#8220;states of being.&#8221; (DS &#8211; I. p.61)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat<\/strong><\/span> is the mystic Essence, the plastic root of physical Nature &#8212; &#8220;Numbers&#8221; when manifested (DS &#8211; I. p.98)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The name is of Buddhist use and a Synonym for the four-fold Anima Mundi (DS &#8211; I. p.98)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Occultists identify it with &#8220;FATHER-MOTHER&#8221; on the mystic plane (DS &#8211; I. p.98)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the mutable radiance of the Immutable Darkness unconscious in Eternity (DS &#8211; I. p.635)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>c) What does sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat do\u00a0:It emanates the noumenon of matter (DS &#8211; I. p.84)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Gods, Men, Gandharvas, Pisachas, Asuras, Rakshasas, all have been created by <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va<\/strong><\/span> (Prakriti, or plastic nature) (DS &#8211; I. p.571)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">It passes, at every new rebirth of Kosmos, from an inactive state into one of intense activity; that it differentiates, and then begins its work through that differentiation. This work is KARMA. (DS &#8211; I. p.635)<\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Everything has come out of Akasa (or <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat<\/strong><\/span> on our earth) in obedience to a law of motion inherent in it (DS &#8211; I. p.635)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2vat, Sw\u00e2bh\u00e2vat, or Sv\u00e2bh\u00e2va, according to H.P.B. in her Secret Doctrine may deserve the same type of study that previously done for Fohat. i.e. where does it appears, with what meaning(s), according to &#8220;conventional theosophy&#8221;. A document was started and uploaded for the sake of collecting inputs. 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