In the Vedic tradition, there are three gunas, or qualities, that are said to pervade all of creation: sattva, rajas, and tamas. Each guna has its own characteristic energy and tendency, and they are in constant flux, influencing each other and everything they touch.

The gunas can be thought of as a spectrum, with sattva at one extreme, tamas at the other, and rajas in the middle. Sattva is the quality of light, purity, and goodness; rajas is the quality of activity, passion, and change; and tamas is the quality of darkness, inertia, and ignorance.

While all three gunas are present in every human being, each person has a predominant guna. And it is said that the goal of human life is to move from a state of tamas (ignorance) to a state of sattva (enlightenment).

There are many ways to bring about this shift, but one of the most important is through the practice of yoga. Yoga helps to cleanse and purify the mind and body, and it is through this process that the gunas can be brought into balance.

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