Dear Friends in Yoga, Welcome

All that is living and non-living, tangible and non-tangible is always constituted of the three subtle qualities of Sattwa (goodness and purity), Rajas (passion and motion) and Tamas (darkness and ignorance). These three qualities or gunas exist in a state of union and cannot be separated. The proportion of these trigunas varies from individual to individual with one guna clearly predominating at times.

In the times we live in, Tamas are said to have suppressed Rajas and Sattwa.  Sattwa can only exist by overcoming Rajas and Tamas.  The yogi makes it his/her life journey to move from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge and to fill his/her life with Sattwa.  However, cultivating Sattwa is not an end in itself and having become Sattvic, the yogi then transcends Sattwa which binds him/her to this world through his/her attachment to happiness and knowledge and finds liberation.

“Arjuna said: What are the marks, O lord, of the man who has risen above the three Gunas? What is his conduct? And how does he rise above the Gunas? The Lord said: He who hates not light, activity, and delusion when they are present, nor longs for them, O Pandava, when they are absent;
He who, sitting like one unconcerned, is unmoved by the Gunas, who remains firm and never wavers, knowing that the Gunas alone are active;
He who dwells in the Self and regards alike pleasure and pain, who looks at a clod, a stone, and a piece of gold as equal worth, who remains the same amidst agreeable and disagreeable things, who is a man of wisdom, and who sees no difference between praise and blame;
He who is the same in honor and dishonor, the same to friend and foe, and who has renounced all undertakings- such a man is said to have risen above the Gunas.”
”And he who worships Me with the Yoga of undeviating love rises above the Gunas and becomes fit to be one with Brahman.

(Me = The Lord who dwells in the hearts of all as their inmost self)” (http://www.dharmayogacenter.com/library/article.php?name=bhagavad_gita_14)

Namaste
Sabine

The Shift in Consciousness - 2012
By Sabine
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