So ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Today we will be speaking about the three gunas or the three qualities as outlined in the Vedic texts.
Now I am going to do a little bit of blend here first to give you the principles because principles have to be understood first.
Once these principles are understood as per the Vedic text these three gunas, guna means the quality.
So let's just call it quality for the simplicity of understanding. Three qualities in existence.
Everything that is embodied has these three qualities. Everything that is in existence to exist as a being which has a body be it etheric,
it's subtle be it multi dimensional be it anything it's got a body. We have got different seven kinds of bodies if you are aware of it.
So we got the physical body, the etheric body, Annamaya Koshapa, Annamaya Koshal. There you can Google it.
So you have different kinds of bodies but embodied consciousness has these three qualities of Satva, of Rajas and of Tamas.
Now what do these three mean? I am going to try and simplify this complicated concepts.
So it will be easier to understand and then I am going to bring it to astrology and then how it ties into astrology.
It even goes into Ayurveda. It even goes into different ascendants and the kind of health issues they will have because of the ascendant energy and everything else.
But that's for later date.
First let's just talk about the principle Satva which is highly mis-interested and mis-quoted in many websites.
Satva really means just pure energy form, pure form of it. The conceptual form of things, the idea, the ideational version of things quality is called the Satva quality.
So anything begins with an idea first. Even the philosophical texts or even the Bible will have it that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God.
So even the Hindu texts or something, Vedic texts or something similar is in the beginning was the sound, the vibration.
So that level of conceptual state of existence has a quality which is called Satva quality. Now if you go to the websites and research they will tell Satva quality is about love and compassion and all these higher states of consciousness.
It's not. That's the result of the Satva quality. Don't misinterpret this.
It's not because you embody these qualities like love and compassion and understanding beauty etc. etc. that you will become Satvik.
No, Satvik quality in you will bring about those things. It's the other way around.
Satvik quality has no preferential treatment of things. The preference is only created in the human mind or the one interpreting the text.
But actually it is just a pure conceptual form or conceptual quality about anything.
Okay. Now that's the one. Then Satvik quality. Another quality of the Satvik quality is that it is static. It just is the easiness of things is Satvik quality.
Okay. The second one Rajasic quality is the one that moves. Rajas is always in movement. The quality of movement within all creation within all bodies within all existence is called the Rajas energy.
That's the energetic form. The sound. The sound always moves. The light. The light always moves. There's a movement quality of life energy itself in existence which moves things.
It creates things. The life force in Gaia, in earth, in plants, animals, even in the so called inanimate objects, stones, crystals, wood, trees, all of the existence has got a movement quality.
To it, which is the Rajasic quality. Rajasic quality is never stationary. It just moves. It's the moving energy. Well, where does it move between? It moves between the Satvik quality and the Thomas equality, which we will discuss.
So it's the dualistic nature of existence. Again, it applies to all bodies. Let it be physical embodied or other beings like people, what they call angelic beings or higher dimensional beings is really nothing quote unquote higher or lower.
It just is. So all bodies, whoever is occupying any kind of form, even if it will be multi dimensional has a Rajasic quality to it. Okay. It moves between the Satvik and the Thomas.
It's like a bridging energy. It keeps shuttling all the time. It keeps like an oscillatory movement. It's like one of those physics concepts of simple harmonic motion. So this is always a moving quality in existence. It exists everywhere.
This has nothing to do with animate inanimate objects. It in existence. That's the way Vedic text will call it. It's in existence. It's pervading across the universe and multiverses all these three qualities.
Next comes the Thomas equality. Thomas equality has a tendency to become condensed in form. The one that becomes condensed in form or looks to condensing things in form is Thomas equality.
For example, water becoming ice is Thomas or metals which are basically super cool liquids and the room temperature, they become solids. All metals are basically liquids. If you know physics, so this quality of things solidifying into things is Thomas equality.
That's another quality. So one is the conceptual form. Just to briefly summarize here. One is the moving energy form quality and one is the solidifying quality. So conceptual quality, moving energy kind of quality and the third being solidifying quality.
That's all these are these have always are in coexistence in every form animate inanimate every universe multiverse etc. etc. etc.
These are called in Vedic text as gunas. Guna means quality. Now understand that what you call the soul or the human soul. Now we're coming to the human soul or any one of these plants and animal souls.
Are playing out in these three qualities. If the body is embodied means to be in a form. Okay. Anything which has a form has these in varying qualities. If you take an angelic entity, it has more of Satvik less of Thomasic less of Rajasic.
It's the degrees here we are talking about but everything as long as it has to be embodied to have a body means it has to have these three qualities.
Even the piece of wood, a piece of stone or glass or a plant or every cell in the human body every cell in plant or animal kingdom.
The rocks, the trees, the soil, the water, the air, the earth, everything has three qualities to it which is Satva, Rajasic, Thomas. These are qualities. Nothing else. These are called gunas.
Now your soul is basically what is called in Sanskrit as guna titha means one does which does not have any quality. It's the new go to that level of your soul which is called soul for argument sake now.
The soul itself is guna titha means it does not have any qualities by itself in and of itself. It does not have any innate nature other than to expand.
It seeks expansion. It seeks constant experience. This is the quality of the creator. This is the oneness which we are all part of right entire existence is throbbing with this oneness.
But that oneness when it has come into existence and take a form be it stone or glass, human being or pigeon. When it has to take a form even if it be an angelic form it is having these three qualities.
Now degrees of these three qualities how much of Satva is there, how much of Thomas is there, how much of Rajasic is there will vary, will vary wildly.
For example if you take a stone it has lot of Thomas in it. It just sits there and it can sit there for eons.
Whereas if you take air it has got a very Rajasic quality. It constantly moves, moves, moves. It is hardly ever static.
So this is the quality of three qualities in existence. Now how does this tie into astrology?
I have to bring you quickly up to speed here to astrology. Well all astrology in Viric astrology it ties it into three basic qualities.
It ties it into two aspects. One is the planetary aspect. Planets are Thomasic or Rajasic or Satvik.
Next is the nakshatras which we will speak about in later podcast. Nakshatras is a totally different thing I need to get into.
So first is the 12 zodiacs and there are 27 nakshatras within these 12 zodiac signs. That is how Viric astrology in a summary is.
So planets carry the energy of Satva Rajasthamas in themselves as well as the nakshatra hold the energy also in Satvik Rajasic and Thomasic aspects.
This is how it comes into astrology. These three qualities of existence Satva Rajasthamas.
Now this is there everywhere. You can find Satva Rajasthamas in Vedic texts in Upanishads. Not so much Vedas but Upanishads definitely.
And Vedanta philosophy is all about Satva Rajasthamas. Even the entire Ayurveda is built on Satva Rajasthamas.
That's what they regulate within the body. Ayurveda is based on this. Three qualities that different substances have.
So if one person has more of Rajasic quality they will Ayurvedic physician will give you medication which has got more of Thomasic quality.
That is to bring the Rajas down. They will give you medication which will bring the Rajas down. Otherwise the person just becomes hyperactive, impulsive.
This is the beauty of Ayurveda by the way. So it regulates these three qualities at the base level.
Because everything in existence even the plants, herbs, flowers, all of these carry these energies in varying degrees.
So do the planets. Like for example Mars, Rahu and Ketu, North and South Noura, the Moon and Saturn are all Thomasic qualities.
They want to make everything physical. They want to drive at the physical level of things, at the Thomas level of things.
The Sun, Moon and Jupiter are Satvik planets. So they carry the Satva quality. Mercury and Venus, your intellect and your heart,
these energies are Rajasic. They are constantly moving in duality. Rajasic energy is the one that moves in duality.
It connects the Satva and it connects the Thomas at both ends. Sometimes a person feels spiritual, sometimes a person feels materialistic.
This is the dualistic play of energy in this dimension. This has nothing to do with somebody wanting to prefer one way or the other.
Everything is okay in that sense because your soul is Gunatita. It is beyond qualities. Your soul doesn't have a quality to itself in and of itself.
But when it comes to play in this dimension, it takes on the body of one or more of these qualities.
What is the purpose? You ask, well, the purpose is just to experience.
Soul desires experience as the vehicle for expansion. It wants to expand all the time in different lifetimes, in different planets, in different universes.
It wants to just gain, gain, gain, gain experience and experience. That's the means of experience used by the soul in order to gather expansion.
That's the purpose. But as soon as it takes on a body of any kind, even a stone or a rock, it becomes enveloped in the dimension of Satva, Rajas and Thomas.
It gains these qualities to begin with and then from there on it picks up and it plays into different things.
Reflect on this. If you have something, you can leave the comment on my Facebook, message me. I would be glad to have a discussion with you, explain this more.
My intention with this is to get the correct understanding to people first.
Because there is a lot of misunderstanding in a lot of websites. Don't go on bumping from website to website. You will get really mixed up.
I have even read scores of books where people are supposed to be an authority on various texts and their understanding is all garbled.
This is my take on this. If you need consult or anything, just message me on Facebook. I just keep it simple. There is no dot com business.
Take care and have a nice one.