Guna

Guna

guna: "Strand; quality." The three constituent principles of prakriti, primal nature. The three gunas are sattva, raja, tamas.

gunas: "Qualities." Metaphysically, the gunas are fundamental cosmic qualities of nature. The three gunas are tamas (inertia, density, the force of contraction, resistance & dissolution), rajas (stimulative, restlessness, activity; the expansive energy of growth and movement) and sattva (quiescence, rarified, translucent, per ... Click for more.

Nirguna Brahman: "God without qualities." See: Brahman

Saguna Brahman: Brahman "God with qualities." Describes Siva's perfections of Satchidananda and Maheshvara, the Primal Soul and His Divine Mind -- that part of God which is divine, all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful and omnipotent. See: Brahman

sattva guna: "Perfection of Being." The quality of goodness or purity. See: guna

sattvaguna: "Perfection of Being." The quality of goodness or purity. 

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tamasic: "Of darkness or inertia." Tamas is the most crude of the three gunas or fundamental cosmic qualities of nature as described in the Samkhya system--tamas (inertia), rajas (activity) and sattva (illumination, purity). The tama guna is the quality of denseness, inertia, contraction, resistance and dissolution. ... 

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rajas: "Passion; activity." See: guna

rajasic: Having the quality of rajas, the second of the three gunas or fundamental cosmic qualities of nature as described in the Samkhya system--tamas (inertia), rajas (activity) and sattva (illumination, purity). The rajaguna is said to be the driving power animating the other two gunas. It is the stimulative, restless, expan ... 

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boddhisattva: See: nirvani, upadeshi

sattva guna: "Perfection of Being." The quality of goodness or purity. See: guna, upadeshi

sattvaguna: "Perfection of Being." The quality of goodness or purity.