guna
गुण gunaOne of the three strands or qualities of nature in Samkhya: sattva (clarity), rajas (activity) and tamas (inertia); the three and a half coils of kundalini are sometimes read as the gunas.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
…s Bhagavad Gita 4.13, where Krishna says: chaturvarnyam maya srishtam guna-karma-vibhagashah , "the fourfold order was created by me according to guna and karma ," that is, according to quality and action.
- What happens after death in Hinduism? Essentials
In Hinduism, death is a transition rather than an end: the body dies, but the true self (atman) is deathless and passes into a new life, a process called…
- The Subtle Body: Nadis, Chakras, and Kundalini Yoga
The Nadi Susumna, whose substance is the threefold Gunas, is in the middle." Sasi is the moon, Mihira the sun.
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
The antahkarana ('inner instrument') is the tradition's technical name for the mind considered as the internal organ of knowing and acting, as opposed to the outer…
- The Three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) Essentials
The threads are called the gunas , and learning to see them is one of the oldest and most practical arts in Hindu thought.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
His commentary on the Sahasranama, the Bhagavad Guna Darpana , the Mirror of the Lord's Qualities, is reckoned his masterpiece.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
The Padma Purana , in its Uttara Khanda, divides the eighteen by the three gunas , the qualities the philosophical schools say weave through all of nature.
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
Two of the three gunas, the strands from which Samkhya weaves the whole of nature, reclassified here as pathogens and listed beside wind, bile and phlegm as things that make a person ill.