Rajas
- The very nature of work involves a person in worldly activities, so it brings a darkness with it.
- When sattva is mixed with rajas, the mind is diverted. Then one is possessed by the vanity of doing good to the world – but it’s very difficult for an ordinary person to do good to the world.
Sattva
- God cannot be realized without devotion, discrimination, dispassion, kindness, and the like.
- Pure sattva is found in only a very few. But when a person works selflessly, the quality of sattva mixed with rajas gradually turns into pure sattva.
- It’s only when one has developed pure sattva that he realizes God, through His grace.
Tamas
- When you live in the world, to protect yourself from bad people, you must make a show of tamas. But it isn’t right to harm anyone just because you think he may harm you.
- The tamas of a worldly man also has its signs: sleep, lust, anger, pride, and so on.
- If you can give a turn to your tamoguna, you can use it to realize God. Force your demands on Him! He’s no stranger. Indeed, He is our own.
- The nature of tamas is pride. It comes from ignorance. Anger is another characteristic of tamas. In anger one loses the sense of right and wrong.