Guna Table
Sattva Rajas Tamas
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1. Nature stainlessness is luminous and nature of passion, the source to be born of ignorance, deluding
healthy of thirst (for sensual all embodied beings
enjoyment) and attachment
2. Bondage to knowledge and to happiness to action To heedlessness, sleep and
indolence
3. Attachment happiness action, Shrouding knowledge, attaches to
heedlessness only
4. Exhibits through every gate (sense) in Greed, activity, the Darkness, inertness, heedlessness
this body, the wisdom-light undertaking of actions, and delusion
shines, restlessness, longing
5. Attainment after attains to the spotless worlds of born among those who are born in the womb of the senseless
death the knowers of the Highest attached to action;
6. Fruit of action pure pain ignorance
7. Outcome knowledge greed heedlessness and delusion
8. Movement proceed upwards dwell in the middle go downwards
9. Display Light activity delusion
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10. Shraddha – the faith Devas Yaksha and Rakshasa Preta and Bhutagana
11. Ahara - food increase life, purity, strength, bitter, sour, saline, excessively stale, tasteless, putrid, rotten and
health, joy and cheerfulness, hot, dry, pungent and burning, impure refuse
which are oleaginous and savoury, and are productive of pain,
substantial and agreeable grief and disease
12. Yajna – Yajna without desire for reward as seeking a reward and for which is contrary to the ordinances
enjoined by the ordinance ostentation of the scriptures, in which no food is
(scripture), with a firm faith that distributed, which is devoid of
to do so is a duty Mantras and gifts, and which is
devoid of faith
13. Tapas – austerity steadfast men with the utmost with the object of gaining good out of a foolish notion, with self-
faith, desiring no reward reception, honour and worship torture, or for the purpose of
and with hypocrisy, unstable destroying another
and transitory
14. Danam – charity given to one who does nothing in made with a view to receive given at the wrong place and time to
return, knowing it to be a duty to something in return, or looking unworthy persons, without respect
give in a fit place and time to a for a reward, or given or with insult
worthy person reluctantly
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15. Tyaga – renunciation merely because it ought to be on account of the fear of bodily from delusion
done, abandoning attachment and trouble (because it is painful),
also the desire for reward one does not obtain the merit
of renunciation
16. Jnana – knowledge sees the one indestructible Reality sees in all beings various clings to one single effect as if it
in all beings, not separate in all entities of distinct kinds as were the whole, without reason,
the separate beings different from one another without foundation in Truth, and
trivial
17. Karma – action action which is ordained, which is action which is done by one action which is undertaken from
free from attachment, which is longing for the fulfilment of delusion, without regard to the
done without love desires or gain, with consequences of
or hatred by one who is not egoism or with much effort loss, injury and (one’s own) ability
desirous of any reward
18. Karta – doer free from attachment, non- Passionate, desiring to obtain Unsteady, dejected, unbending,
egoistic, endowed with firmness the rewards of actions, cruel, cheating, malicious, vulgar, lazy and
and enthusiasm greedy, impure, moved by procrastinating
and unaffected by success or joy and sorrow
failure
19. Buddhi – intellect knows the path of work and one incorrectly understands enveloped in darkness, views
renunciation, what ought to be Dharma and Adharma, and also Adharma as Dharma and all things
done and what ought not to be what ought perverted
done, fear and fearlessness, to be done and what ought not
bondage and liberation to be done
20. Dhriti – firmness unwavering firmness by which, on account of attachment and a stupid man does not abandon
through Yoga, the functions of the desire for reward, one holds sleep, fear, grief, despair and also
mind, the life-force and the senses fast to Dharma, enjoyment of conceit
are restrained pleasures and earning of
wealth
21. Sukham – Pleasure like poison at first but in the end arises from the contact of the pleasure which at first and in the
like nectar sense-organs with the objects, sequel is delusive of the self, arising
which is at first like nectar and from sleep, indolence and
in the end like poison heedlessness
