tamas
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Origin of tamas
< Sanskrit: darkness
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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
It also describes sattva as being light and illuminating, rajas as of the nature of energy and causing motion, and tamas as heavy and obstructing.
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
To quote his own words: "The germ of the idea ... must be discovered in that nocturnal darkness, that çārvaram tamas, which native mythologists in India had not yet quite forgotten in post-Vedic times."
From Cerberus, The Dog of Hades The History of an Idea by Maurice Bloomfield
Thus the regroupings of tamas reals marks the differentiation which takes place within the mahat but through its stage as bhûtâdi.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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