Dear Sri Vishnu, There are three gunas which is called modes of nature. Sathwik, Rajasik and Tamasik.Our material body is made of these gunas with the material elements. we can call it in english as mode of goodness , mode of passion and mode of ignorance. Krishna dasee Vedavalli Ranganathan. --- Vishnu <vsmvishnu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- In ramanuja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, vedavalli > ranganathan > Dear Smt Vedavalli, > > How do you translate sAttvikam into English? > > Dasan > Vishnu > > <vedaranga@xxxx> wrote: > > Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha: > > > > > > I think Sathivika ahankaram is this. if one > in > > the mode of goodness and allways doing good > ,thinks: > > i am doing right things. doing good things to > others > > and following regulative principles correctly and > > happy about that he is in Sathivika ahankara. > Krishna > > says in Bhagwath Gita, even though one is in mode > of > > goodness and feels happy about that he is > > conditioned.so we have to transcend even that mode > and > > come to the suddha satvik nature to attain Sriman > > Narayana.. > > > > Krishna Dasee > > > > Vedavalli Ranganathan. > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/.itolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> azhwAr emberumAnAr jeeyAr thiruvadigalE saranam Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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