May 1, 2022 - Grade 9 (Sunday AM)
Hari om Parents,
After our starting prayers and a recap of last week's class - "The Four Stages of Life", we started the next chapter - "The Three Tendencies".
We started the class with a quiz to evaluate our tendencies. There were a set of general questions related to our likes and choices. The answers to these questions were bucketed under S,R & T.
We then started the class defining S, R & T as Sattvic, Rajasic & Tamasic qualities. These three qualities are there in each one of us. Their influence varies with time, place and situation. We should not judge anyone based on the scores we got. It is meant for us to analyze ourselves and see if it aligns with what we perceive of ourselves.
The three tendencies are also called Gunas. Gunas in Sanskrit means rope. So, tendencies bind us. And we should not necessarily think in terms of good gunas or bad gunas but use good gunas to cross the influence of gunas.
The three tendencies/gunas and their influence by nature is given below:
Sattvaguna - nature of knowledge
Rajoguna - nature of activity
Tamoguna - nature of inertia
Sattvaguna is the nature of knowledge. A desire for knowledge and the qualities of love, faith, kindness, and compassion.
Rajoguna is nature of activity Numerous desires and ambitions are its manifestations
Tamoguna is the nature of inertia. It manifests as dullness and little interest or ambition of any kind
We saw a number of videos by Swami Chinmayananda and discussed the points he mentioned about gunas there.
Other Sunday AM, Grade 9 2021-22 class summaries in https://cmnjparentportal21-22.blogspot.com/search/label/Gr%209%20-%20Sunday%20AM
Regards,
Rukmani & Partha