● Hindu · Concept
The Three Gunas
त्रिगुण
All of nature — every thought, food, and action — is woven from three qualities
The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 14) teaches that all of material existence is made of three gunas: Sattva (purity, clarity, wisdom — the quality of light), Rajas (passion, activity, desire — the quality of fire), and Tamas (inertia, dullness, darkness — the quality of heaviness). Every food, every thought, every action, every person has a mixture of all three. Liberation means rising above all three gunas — becoming the witness of nature rather than being driven by it.
Sattva Rajas TamasThree QualitiesTrigunaNature's Three Forces
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Notice your current mental state: clear and light (Sattva)? Restless and driven (Rajas)? Heavy and dull (Tamas)? Don't judge — just observe which guna is dominant right now. That noticing is the beginning of transcendence.
Dawn is naturally Sattvic. Midday Rajasic. Night Tamasic.
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MyBrahman is free and ad-free for everyone. If it has given you something, dāna keeps the lamp lit.
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