The Three Gunas and the Three Laws of Thermodynamics - How Ancient Psychology Maps to Modern Physics

The Vedantic tradition describes all of manifestation as the interplay of three fundamental qualities - the gunas. Sattva is the quality of harmony, clarity, and luminosity. Rajas is the quality of...

The Vedantic tradition describes all of manifestation as the interplay of three fundamental qualities - the gunas. Sattva is the quality of harmony, clarity, and luminosity.

Rajas is the quality of activity, passion, and transformation. Tamas is the quality of inertia, darkness, and resistance.

Every phenomenon in the manifest universe - every thought, every emotion, every physical process, every cosmic event - is described as a specific proportion of these three qualities.

The gunas are not substances. They are tendencies - the three fundamental modes of prakriti (nature/matter) through which all material and psychological phenomena express.