A post submitted by CGI member Morgan.

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http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2022/08/a-cabal-of-tamasic-retrogressive-orcs.html

Hmm... Ahem... (hand extended into invisible space is pulled back, holding the nothing it reached out with.) Oh well... hurry up and wait, as someone once said. Though the context escapes me, I close my eyes and see a series of images of people, racing to get somewhere for nothing to happen. It's... what I call, Playing Tag with The Gunas. An elder stands in a schoolmarmish posture and wags her fingers at two little boys. One of them is hardly moving and the other is standing still. She says, “Now you listen up here, Sattva and Tamas, you stop this nonsense and go back to your rooms or I am going to tell Rajas.”

Yeah, I realize that hardly anyone is going to get that, much less the humor of it, BUT... what has that got to do with anything? Tell you what, I'm going to explain how it seems to me; Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas are the names for the three modes of action that are involved, singly or in combination, with all action ever taking place... period. It is a tenet(s) of the Hindu Perspective.

Sattva is effulgent and resplendent awareness. It is luminous intelligence... positive awareness, though... much more can be said. This is a Cliff Notes summation of a Cliff Notes summation. Bear... that... in... mind. Rajas is full-on energy, defined by intention as good or bad. It is also passion. Tamas is sluggish, sleepwalking, dull zombie mind. Go look them up for yet another explanation, s-u-r-r-o-u-n-d-e-d by yet more explanations, with new ones coming every day.