striving, worrying, agitation and disturbance in general, the passionate quality, Rajas.
And the third quality, Sattvas, is that which is counted the best in us, that of which we may be proud, that which is self-assertive, self-righteousness, that in which we feel that we are good. It is called the goodness of the race and by other good names, such as virtue, enlightenment, knowledge, etc. Nevertheless, it acts as a bond with people who claim reward; that think they have earned a right to good things. They may be bound by that feeling, and perhaps filled with self-righteous pity or self-excuses from the basis of their righteousness. They may feel themselves wronged and misunderstood, and suffer from sensitiveness and, worst of all, from egotism, for there is where the ego stands, the I of us’; which, seeing from a personal standpoint, believes itself to be the good.
Now, according to the psychology of the Hindus, these three bonds must be broken. The sages among them have learned that they are not broken by violence, but by knowledge. First of all, knowing the nature of them, that they are delusion, that they are not real but are shadows and reflections. They have no real strength and no real place, and by the mind keeping single to the Real back of each, their substance and strength in the Spirit, they can be surmounted and used for the Highest.
Repose not Inertia nor Laziness
The Real of the Tamas quality is the power of repose, of being still and poised and quiet, that of
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