Dr. Vasant Lad
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If there is no ahankar, no creation is possible.
Then it becomes ego.
Then I. This is my life.
This is me.
And then we always do all egotistical activity.
That is ahankar.
But in Sankhya, the model of creation, ahankar is biological need.
That is absolutely necessary.
to create your self-identity, self-existence.
Then ahamkara has three gunas, sattva, rajas, and tamas.
Sattva is clarity, purity.
Rajas is movement, agitation, temptation.
And tamas is the darkness, the material thing.
Now, you are observing, so you are sattva.
My body is tamas.
It is material.
And your sattva is coming through your sensory perception to meet with this tamas.
So, meeting point of sattva as a tamas gives us experience.
So, there is no experience without this equilibrium between sattva, the observer,
Rajas, the observation, and Tamas, the thing to be observed.