tamas
Americannoun
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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 Surendranath Dasgupta
Rajas and tamas represent the bad states of the mind and sattva the good ones.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
When matter is examined, we find three fundamental qualities—rhythm, mobility, stability—sattva, rajas, tamas.
From An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Wood Besant
The Brahmana said, 'Do thou truly describe to me, who now duly ask thee, the respective virtues of the qualities of sattwa, rajas, and tamas.'
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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