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The Gītā warns of tāmasic sukham - pleasure born of ignorance. It’s the illusion that comfort equals peace. Real freedom begins when we trade fatalism for choice, and passivity for purpose.

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Rajasic happiness depends on the world meeting our expectations - a fragile joy built on shifting sands. When life misses our “appointments with the future,” disappointment follows. True peace begins where expectation ends. #GitaWisdom #SwamiChinmayananda

Rājasic happiness is thrilling at first, but fades once consumed. Sāttvic happiness, on the other hand, is the quiet joy that compounds within. #BhagavadGita #MindfulLiving

True joy doesn’t wait at the end of the journey, it walks with you. When you act selflessly and see clearly, happiness rises from within. This is joy born from knowing who you truly are.

All happiness fades with time, but the wise learn to find peace beyond pleasure.

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Break free from tamas , the fog that numbs effort and purpose. Start small: Even a spark of rajas - desire, ambition, motion, can lift you from inertia. Then, refine it into sattva: action without attachment, work as worship. Tamas → Rajas → Sattva That’s the journey

Tamasic will is the power to act that chooses not to, trapping life in quiet despair.

The Vedas don’t reject desire, they refine it. Rājasic will helps us earn; sātvic will helps us share. The real surprise? Desire matures into devotion, it doesn’t disappear.

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Rajasic willpower burns bright, but for the wrong prize. It drives action, ambition, and success, yet binds the doer to wealth, praise, and pleasure. The Rajasic mind works hard, but for material possessions, not spiritual growth .

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The danger of a Tāmasic intellect is its certainty. It mistakes adharma for dharma and never doubts itself. Ignorance wrapped in conviction is far harder to cure than ignorance alone.

Partial understanding is like walking in dim light - enough to see something, not enough to see it clearly. In that half-light, truth bends, and the rope looks like a snake.

The mind first decides what it wants, then goes hunting for reasons to prove it’s right. True clarity begins when reason leads desire, not the other way around.

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The world chases what shines; the Sāttvic mind seeks what frees. Where others see gain in possession, it sees loss of peace. True intelligence isn’t knowing how to win, but what’s not worth winning.

Our choices mirror our nature. Krishna teaches that intellect and willpower arise from the gunas - tamas clouds, rajas agitates, sattva illuminates. To walk the path of clarity and peace, cultivate sattvic buddhi and sattvic dhr̥ti.