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but how can a non-living thing which is man-made have all the three winners
you see we can interpret the word gunas to mean the physical world that we live in as well as
the if you like the human world that we operate in so the gunas are they permeate the whole of
creation this is what the idea of kunazi is about it's not only visible in the physical sense it
is also visible in human terms so you can say a person is tamsi or full of tamas because it's lazy
you can say the same things in the physical sense saying the if you like this quality of inertia
things have a habit of not budging a piece of rock it just sits there so the very thing that we in
human terms we call say tamas are saying laziness and inner is is seen as inertia in the physical
world so we see a relationship and it makes sense because you say the same it's like a story so City
and watches TV he doesn't want to do anything and see the piece of rock doesn't want to do anything
either so the idea of inertia as I'm showing you in in physical terms as well as in human terms
so the idea of the gunas is so Central because Hinduism is still look at that this is something
that has not been properly explored and it could be explored in this day this century
there's a whole lot of this creation see everything living non-living soon as it manifests
itself becomes visible in this world kind of has dreams intertwined they are never singular they're
always intertwine and you can't separate them even three attributes kind of combine together and
the way they explain is they call them threads so you use it in these three threads as if the whole
universe has been threaded together including living thing and non-living this sounds you
know very poetic and what the hell you mean look you see a piece of cloth you've got threads going
this way and got threads going that way and when these threads are intertwined they become material
in the same way they say the whole of his creation physical human intellectual
spiritual is all nothing but three elements three threads combining
so the physical sense we say the thread of inertia is the one that kind of makes a rock sit still as
we say Newton's first law of motion if that's what it is that a piece of matter will not merge unless
something in x on it so the idea of is physical and in the spiritual in the human terms it is
the idea of laziness in spiritual terms it means ignorance because you just don't like light you
know you are so lazy and dull you don't want light so you are an un if you like ignorant this is how
the word tamas from physical to human to spiritual so there's a link still the same idea same thread
then the idea of rajas comes in that means things which have a habit of moving motion forces so
in the physical we'll see forces kind of loud things because the force of gravity and force
of electrons so you see force in the physical world there's nothing dramatically different
from matter and so in Newton's terms this is the second law of Motion in Newton for defining Force
in human terms it means a person who does not like to sit still wants to be active and there are some
human beings who are but again you see the old threads are linked together they're not separated
so one person who just just full of laziness there's a bit of inertia and a bit of activity
we all come combination of these three attributes so you've got some kind of activity so some people
are more lazy than perspective of some people are overactive they call them you could ants in the
pants they can't sit still they must do things day and night jump about so go to that that means too
much rajas and less tamas and so far so good then you're the third gun which is very interesting
says really the whole thing can only be held together this is the third element third thread
is the third thread the clothes requires just two threads to hold it together the universe require
three threads the third one goes this way if you like that is satwa there is a sense of balance
that seems to keep operating and become visible in variety of different ways so in physical terms
this is Newton's third law see this is discovered three gunas and give them three laws is the idea
of action and equal and opposite reaction with the balance out so if I'm sitting on the table
on this chair sorry the amount of push I put on the chair it pushes me back it's exactly the same
no more otherwise I'll jump up I'll fly off and if it was any less I'll collapse so they have to they
balance out naturally they seem to be Natural Balance in the physical world you don't start
low in the in human term this means a person who is reasonably bad away he's looking at things so
he's not overactive or not too lazy and is more balanced and if you like much more sober in this
activity in spiritual terms this becomes this is like the quality of being content illumined
illumined you see is illumin like the tamas was Darkness this is illumination so threads
everywhere that's what I'm saying in the physical world in human terms and even the spiritual realm
same threads that take us everywhere when you think about this the whole universe is kind
of just threaded or these three things threaded together recently feel that this is a very unusual
way and again they are never single they're never separate the trades are always together
one sometimes one is more predominant the others are less most visible in human terms in physical
world too so to see look can you imagine ancient Hindu mind you know how old this is
the oldest philosophy the Hindus created this is part of the sankhya darshan of Rishi Kapil this
is the most ancient system of thought the first one and yet this idea of these three threads are
still there today in the physics in physics we learn them otherwise we can't do physics we can
do GCSE physics and nothing but exploring the three threats at the physical level in
religion we still eat those three threads to if you like appreciate if you like our spiritual
Dimension as well still the threads come with us saying that there's more satwa and the aim
of Hindu life is to move from tamas to rajas because we are automatic all of us tempted to
be Pharmacy because we don't like to move about he said we feel like our natural kind of you
know starting point from there we need to become more active so in the bhagavad-gita Krishna says
action is better than inaction so go from tamas to rajas say don't stop there you see once
you become too rajasik that again becomes safe like a whirlwind say develop a sense of balance
and contentment this is satwa so we start from inaction to action and then from action it says
selfless action his actions which are not for your benefit but for greater benefit so you go from
tamas to rajas to satwa becoming selfless in your activities act be active would be selfless foreign