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
They are sattva, explained as goodness and happiness; rajas, as passion and movement; and tamas, as darkness, heaviness and ignorance.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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 Dasgupta, Surendranath
As tamas must be present in some degree in all combinations, all intellectual operations are fraught with some degree of painful feeling.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
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 Dasgupta, Surendranath
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