The whole creation is made up of three gunas, three natures.

The whole creation is made up of three gunas, three natures.The tamasic here is more dullness. Rajasic is more activity. Sattwik is more light and more freedom. Like if you take food which is natural, if you take apple pie, it is good for health and gives you pleasure. But if you go into drugs, it just entraps you. It seems to give you pleasure, but only gives you pain, only suffering and it is hard to get out of it. So that is tamasic. Tamasic, rajasic, sāttwik. Certain food you take makes you a model, certain foods make you more agitated, active. Everything is from these three different gunas. There are some specialties about it. All these details are there.

“Drashta drushimctraha shuddopi pratycyanupashyaha’’ (II Sūtra 20)

drashta = the self; drushimctraha = consciousness only; shuddaha = pure; api = even though; pratyaya = mixes; anupashyaha = covered intellect.

“The self is pure consciousness only, but when it gets mixed up with the intellect, it gets covered.”

The self, though it is ever pure, untainted, it is just a witness. But when it becomes one with the buddhi, the intellect, then it gets colored. It appears as though it is colored. Somebody who is stuck with their intellect, they just stick to their thoughts and ideas as though it is their own. They suffer a lot. The self is the centre of the whole creation.


Om Namah Shivay