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'''Svābhāvat''' is a term used by [[H. P. Blavatsky]] in her writings, although it is not found in [[Sanskrit]] as a noun in the way she uses it, but as ''svabhāva''. How [[H. P. Blavatsky|Mme. Blavatsky]] came to use this form was explained by David Reigle:
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<blockquote>After standing for more than 120 years, the problem of the word svābhāvat was solved by Daniel Caldwell, and he did this without knowing Sanskrit. Ironically, it had entered [[The Secret Doctrine (book)|''The Secret Doctrine'']] because of HPB not knowing Sanskrit. As Daniel found (on Oct. 13, 2009), HPB had copied svābhāvat from [[Max Müller|F. Max Muller]], who had used it as declined in the ablative case: svabhāvāt. The word itself, undeclined, is svabhāva. This is obviously what HPB intended, especially in its seven occurrences in the stanzas that she published from the [[Book of Dzyan]].<ref>[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/svabhavat-svabhavat-and-svabhava/# Svābhāvat, svabhāvāt, and svabhāva] at The Book of Dzyan</ref></blockquote>
 
[[H. P. Blavatsky]] defines Svābhāvat as follows:
 
<blockquote>Svabhâvat (Sk.). Explained by the Orientalists as “plastic substance”, which is an inadequate definition. Svabhâvat is the world substance and stuff, or rather that which is behind it-the spirit and essence of substance. The name comes from Subhâva and is composed of three words--su, good, perfect, fair, handsome; sva, self; and bhâva being, or state of being. From it all nature proceeds and into it all returns at the end of the life-cycles. In Esotericism it is called “Father-Mother”. It is the plastic essence of matter.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 314.</ref></blockquote>
 
== Notes ==
 
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==Further reading==
 
*[http://www.theosophy.ph/encyclo/index.php?title=Svabhavat# Svabhavat] at Theosopedia
 
*[http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/why-the-form-svabhavat-in-theosophical-writings/# Why the Form Svabhavat in Theosophical Writings] at The Book of Dzyan
 
 
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