![]() The child prefers getting lost in video games and self-gratifying partying. Yet, all children are encouraged to be aspirational, achievement driven, rather than contentment driven. We are told that the world will be a better place if we choose sattva-guna over rajo- or tamo-guna. It is also drawn towards laziness and that stokes sluggishness (tamo-guna). Unfortunately, the human mind is drawn towards achievement and that stokes passion (rajoguna). The human mind has decided that the lucid state (sattva-guna) takes us towards spirituality. ![]() Everything in nature displays these three qualities in different proportions. Matter has three qualities (guna): the lucid (sattva), the passionate (rajas) and the sluggish (tamas). ![]() The latter is technically not an entity as it cannot be measured. ![]() The Bhagavad Gita informs us that the world is made of two intertwined entities: the material (prakriti) and the spiritual (purusha). ![]()
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