gunas

The threads are called the gunas , and learning to see them is one of the oldest and most practical arts in Hindu thought.

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 Nadi Susumna, whose substance is the threefold Gunas, is in the middle." Sasi is the moon, Mihira the sun.

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.

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.

Here maya is God's own power of manifestation, the creative energy through which Ishvara projects the world of the gunas, and the world is the display of that power.

The rival school, Samkhya, had solved the problem of the world by making matter, prakriti , an independent principle standing apart from spirit, its whole activity spun out of the interplay of the three gunas.

It teaches that all of nature is woven of three gunas , three strands or qualities: sattva (clarity and goodness), rajas (energy and craving), and tamas (inertia and darkness).