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In Vedic philosophy, sattva ( Sanskrit / सत ् त ् व " purity ", literally " existence, reality "; adjectival " pure ", anglicised sattvic ) is the most rarefied of the three gunas in Samkhya, sāttvika " pure ", rājasika " dim ", and tāmasika " dark ".

Importantly, no value judgement is entailed as all guna are indivisible and mutually qualifying.

The Viṣṇu or the Deity of the quality of goodness in the material world is the puruṣa-avatāra known as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu or Paramātmā.