08-26-2018, 11:40 AM
Just a little comment here from the cheap seat section of the house........
It strikes me that you are translating an higher dimensional concept into 3d. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you, I'm just pointing it out. Equality, avoidance and sorting out the difference are pretty well 2nd & 3rd energy center responses to catalyst which may help us all see the world more clearly.
Triguna (the 3 gunas) are a doctrinal concept aimed at offering a simple template for sorting out inclinations towards (or away from) Transcendence. Tamas (pron. TUH-muhs, like hummus) is often referred to as inertia and is associated with a dragging, downward drooping energy which would have a great deal of connection to what Ra calls "the sinkhole of indifference." As a state of affect, it has to do with lethargy, small-mindedness and having not much interest in anything beyond one's immediate concerns.
The root sat (pron. suht, as in Sutter) is often translated as something like infinite truth. To translate a sattvic affect into Ra verbiage, it would be as that state of pure tuning of the energy centers and waiting for the Creator to use them to play a little tune now and again. It's a state deep peace that comes through attunement to Transcendent the aspects of self.
Rajas (pron. Ruh-juhs) comes from a root implying obscuration, like the when the dry winds kick up tons of dust into the air and the sun and landscape become fuzzy. The affect tends to be overcharged and restive, that is, neither inert nor peaceable. It's more of a nervous, unpoised response to catalyst.
Beyond the mere labeling of these things, the concept is that all acts of objects--all phenomena--is/are composed of some or other proportion of these elements. For example, I might suggest that the L/L Research channelings are a notable sattvic body of work, whereas some other titles in that genre might have a more depressing (tamasic) or going-nowhere-in-a-hurry (rajasic) feel to them. The same can be said about foods or, alternatively, the quality of a particular day's meditation. It might have been especially tamasic or sattvic or whatever.
On the most basic level, as it I view it, the simplest use for such a concept is to provide more confusing vocabulary to "help" talk about abstruse concepts. Oops! No, I meant to say, it offers a person a simple conceptual framework for viewing how the ark of their time spent here is bending: perhaps towards Divinity or towards stuckness or mainly going around in circles.
Again, there's nothing wrong with your framework above for sorting out one's reaction to catalyst. It's just that, since you invoked triguna, I thought I should offer some respectful perspective.
It strikes me that you are translating an higher dimensional concept into 3d. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you, I'm just pointing it out. Equality, avoidance and sorting out the difference are pretty well 2nd & 3rd energy center responses to catalyst which may help us all see the world more clearly.
Triguna (the 3 gunas) are a doctrinal concept aimed at offering a simple template for sorting out inclinations towards (or away from) Transcendence. Tamas (pron. TUH-muhs, like hummus) is often referred to as inertia and is associated with a dragging, downward drooping energy which would have a great deal of connection to what Ra calls "the sinkhole of indifference." As a state of affect, it has to do with lethargy, small-mindedness and having not much interest in anything beyond one's immediate concerns.
The root sat (pron. suht, as in Sutter) is often translated as something like infinite truth. To translate a sattvic affect into Ra verbiage, it would be as that state of pure tuning of the energy centers and waiting for the Creator to use them to play a little tune now and again. It's a state deep peace that comes through attunement to Transcendent the aspects of self.
Rajas (pron. Ruh-juhs) comes from a root implying obscuration, like the when the dry winds kick up tons of dust into the air and the sun and landscape become fuzzy. The affect tends to be overcharged and restive, that is, neither inert nor peaceable. It's more of a nervous, unpoised response to catalyst.
Beyond the mere labeling of these things, the concept is that all acts of objects--all phenomena--is/are composed of some or other proportion of these elements. For example, I might suggest that the L/L Research channelings are a notable sattvic body of work, whereas some other titles in that genre might have a more depressing (tamasic) or going-nowhere-in-a-hurry (rajasic) feel to them. The same can be said about foods or, alternatively, the quality of a particular day's meditation. It might have been especially tamasic or sattvic or whatever.
On the most basic level, as it I view it, the simplest use for such a concept is to provide more confusing vocabulary to "help" talk about abstruse concepts. Oops! No, I meant to say, it offers a person a simple conceptual framework for viewing how the ark of their time spent here is bending: perhaps towards Divinity or towards stuckness or mainly going around in circles.
Again, there's nothing wrong with your framework above for sorting out one's reaction to catalyst. It's just that, since you invoked triguna, I thought I should offer some respectful perspective.
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