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tamas

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[tuhm-uhs] / ˈtʌm əs /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. guna


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Etymology

Origin of tamas

< Sanskrit: darkness

Example Sentences

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The city is suffused with a form of darkness that locals call tamas, which “is inseparable from the chthonic energy of Shiva, the city’s presiding deity, and the god of creative dissolution,” Taseer writes.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2019

Thus in the phenomenal product whatever energy there is is due to the element of rajas and rajas alone; all matter, resistance, stability, is due to tamas, and all conscious manifestation to sattva.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

When matter is examined, we find three fundamental qualities—rhythm, mobility, stability—sattva, rajas, tamas.

From An Introduction to Yoga by Besant, Annie Wood

But sattva, rajas and tamas were accepted in Vedânta in the sense of tendencies and not as reals as Sâ@mkhya held it.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

But as the sattva, rajas, and tamas are not one but three, you yourself do not assume one cause, and hence do not manage to arrive at an ultimate cause.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

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