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[1] [2] The concept is originally notable as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. [3] The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. [4] There are three guṇas (triguṇa), according to this worldview, that have always been and continue to be present in all things and beings in the world. [4]
[1] [2] The other two qualities are rajas (passion and activity) and tamas (destruction, chaos). Sattva is the quality of goodness, purity, positivity, truth, serenity, balance, peacefulness, and virtuousness that is drawn towards Dharma and jñāna (knowledge). [1] [3] [4] The act or a person who bears this is called Sattvik.
Guṇasthāna (Sanskrit: "levels of virtue") are the fourteen stages of spiritual development and growth through which a soul gradually passes before it attains moksha (liberation). [1] According to Jainism , it is a state of soul from a complete dependence on karma to the state of complete dissociation from it.
[1] [2] The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that drives motion, energy and activity. [3] [4] Rajas is sometimes translated as passion, where it is used in the sense of activity, without any particular value and it can contextually be either good or bad.
The Hindu figure of Rama is often presented as an ideal man, representing the epitome of righteousness, compassion, duty, sacrifice, and leadership, making him an enduring symbol of ethical and moral conduct. [1] Rama's adherence to righteousness, or dharma, is a central aspect of his symbolism as an
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. [1] It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. [1] This field of study was central to the composition of the Vedas, the scriptural canons of Hinduism; in fact, so central that some later Hindu and Buddhist texts refer to the Vedas as Chandas.
Statue of Patañjali, its traditional snake form indicating kundalini or an incarnation of Shesha. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (IAST: Patañjali yoga-sūtras) is a compilation "from a variety of sources" [1] of Sanskrit sutras on the practice of yoga – 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to others, including BKS Iyengar).
— Baudhāyana, Dharmasūtra, II.10.18.1–10 [35] Baudhāyana also makes repeated references to the Sannyasa (ascetic) stage and its behavioral focus, such as in verses II.13.7 and 11.18.13. This reference, Olivelle states, is found in many early to mid 1st millennium BC texts, and is clearly from gnomic poetry about an established ascetic ...