But the presence of Purusha brings about certain internal changes, causes a difference in the equilibrium of the three gunas in Prakriti.
The Gunas create actions and theGunas lead the Gunas.
Fire that is produced by the friction of bamboo pieces, burns up the forest and is then extinguished of itself even so the body caused by disturbance of the Gunas is extinguished of itself, (at that final stage).
It is through ignorance and shortsightedness that thou hast married one who is void of all Gunas (good qualities) and who is praised only by Bhikshus (beggars).
Some accept them as their own, by contact with Gunasand some reject them to some extent (by discriminating knowledge).
When theGunas are disturbed again they come back (i.
Under the influence of Purusha, the first disturbance in the equilibrium of the Gunas follows from Kala, transformation follows from Svabhava and the development of Mahat Tatva follows from Karma.
Satva, Rajas and Tamas are not His Gunas, but they are the Gunas of Prakriti.
All beings in this Universe wedded to karma are made by Me, who as Kala am the Dispenser of all karma, to merge out of or to dive down in the flow of Gunas (i.
True the mind enters the Gunas and the Gunasenter the mind.
Thence he goes to Mahat Tatva and thence to Pradhana, where all the Gunas find their resting place.
The Gunas only relate to Thee and are themselves manifested by Thee.
For if the three gunas are all alike unlimited, and therefore omnipresent, there is nowhere a plus or minus of any of them, and as thus no inequality can result, effects cannot originate.
Hence it follows that this world, consisting of the three gunas, has for its only cause the Pradhâna, which is constituted by those three gunas in a state of equipoise.
But, as in the pralaya state the three gunas are in a state of equipoise, none of them being superior or inferior to the others, that relation of superiority and subordination cannot then exist, and hence the world cannot originate.
Nor can you say that this end is accomplished through the three gunas being unlimited.
For Brahman having non-sentient matter for its body, that state which consists of the threegunas and is denoted by the term 'Unevolved' is something effected.
On the former alternative, the gunas not being composed of parts must be held to aggregate or join themselves without any reference to difference of space, and from such conjunction the production of gross effects cannot result.
The primâ facie answer is that the individual Self is not an agent, since the sacred texts concerned with the Self declare that the Self does not act, while the gunas do act.
For the same reason therefore we have to enclose in the meditation gunas mentioned in other Vedânta-texts; for being also connected with the meditation they subserve it in the same way.
Thus the knowledge, which has Desire for its originating cause, rests on the Gunas or has them for its refuge.
Decrepitude and death cannot assail that Brahmana who has got beyond the sphere of acts, who has transcended the destruction of the Gunas themselves, and who is no longer attached to worldly objects.
Gunas are not so destroyed by knowledge that they do not return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
