Sattvam rajas tama iti gunaah prakritisambhavaah Nibadhnanti mahaabaaho dehe dehinam avyayam — Bhagvad Gita, Chapter 14, Verse 5 Yogi Ashwini, When purush (soul) combines with prakriti (creation), in the form of three gunas — satva, rajas and tama — a being takes birth in creation. Light, happiness and gyan are properties of satva, rajas pertains to desires, attachments and resultant actions, and tama is darkness, ignorance and sleep. At all times, all the three gunas are present in a human being, one dominating the other, depending on the desire and state of evolution of being. Ordinary beings are ruled by tama, which is also the guna dominant in animals and other lower beings. When a being leaves the body with the dominance of tama guna, s/he gets the animal yonis and enters into the netherworlds says the Bhagvad G...
Journey of the spirit 'Sanatan Kriya'