Generally one neither hates nor desires. Thus in the Bhāllaveya branch of the Sāma Veda it is said: ‘Rajas and tamas set going the sattva-guna; generally one neither hates nor desires those inclined by rajas and tamas.’ Yet subtly, if sattva enters, one may desire the refined sattva; if it departs, one abandons it. The gods and sages are established in sattva, as is the best of kings; those deficient in subtle sattva are considered of the passion-tamasic type. How could a person of the passion-tamasic type attain Purushottama (the Supreme Person)? Hence the teaching: a sattvika person becomes like a tiger toward persons—resolute for liberation.