tamas
तमस् tamasOne of the three gunas: the quality of inertia, heaviness, darkness, dullness and delusion. When tamas predominates, there is sleep, sloth and confusion; but it is also the principle of rest, stability and form. It binds the soul, the Bhagavad Gita says, through heedlessness, laziness and sleep.
Where this term appears
- The Three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas, Tamas) Essentials
…rand of light and clarity; rajas , the strand of fire and motion; and tamas , the strand of weight and darkness.
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
The mental doshas are said to be rajas and tamas." Rajas and tamas .
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Sattva, rajas, tamas, and the sects There is a second way the tradition sorts its Puranas, and it is more revealing than the first.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
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).
- Shiva's Emblems: The Trishula and the Damaru Deities
They are read as the three gunas , the strands of sattva , rajas and tamas from which all nature, prakriti , is woven.
- What is Samkhya? Philosophy
Tamas is heaviness, inertia, dullness, the quality that restrains and conceals.
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
Prakriti is woven of three gunas , the strands or qualities whose shifting proportions account for every difference in the world: sattva , lucidity; rajas , activity; tamas , inertia.
- The Three Cities Treatise
…edas ( Rig , Yajur , Sama ), onto the three guna-s ( sattva , rajas , tamas ), onto the three svaras ( udatta , anudatta , svarita - the three Vedic recitation tones), onto the three principal goddesses ( Mahal…