Bhagavad Gita Quotes on Three Gunas

Calm, restless and dull states all pass through you; none is you.

Clarity, restlessness and dullness are weather, not identity.

Three qualities weave every experience: clarity, drive, and inertia.

You pass through all three qualities every day.

Qualities of mind come and go; you remain.

Observe which quality is in charge of you right now.

Clarity, drive and dullness take turns; none owns you.

Your inner weather changes as one quality overtakes another.

Clarity brings knowledge, craving brings greed, fog brings confusion.

Know what lies beyond clarity, drive and fog.

Clarity, motion and inertia are three seasons of the mind.

Know the three qualities and you can ride them rather than being ridden.

Each quality has its own way of catching you.

Clarity lifts, restlessness holds you in place, heaviness pulls down.

Your inner qualities colour your beliefs.

Every ordinary act carries a quality: clarity, drive or fog.

Habits of the mind can hide what lies beyond them.

Peace, drive, and fog each want to keep you.

No one is free of nature’s three moods; the wise simply recognise them.

Qualities act on qualities; you need not cling.

Knowing, doing, and being: each has its own quality.

Qualities and actions shape the world; the self watches, unchanged.

Awareness of the three strands loosens their hold.

Nature’s three strands feed every branch of your mind.

Look past nature’s three moods to what stays.

The three qualities of nature keep the wheel of action turning.

To see the gunas at work is to be freer than them.

Three tendencies shape what you think and how long you stay with it.

Which of the three qualities is strongest in you today?

Beyond calm, restless and dull, there is something steady.

You can enjoy the qualities of life without being bound by them.

Your moods and qualities are born of nature, not of your essence.

Clarity is lovely, but do not cling to it.

Understand your gunas and you stop being run by them.

When understanding shines through every sense, clarity is present.

Restlessness is a sign that the drive has overtaken the calm.

The quality you cultivate now is the one you carry on.

Notice what each state tends to produce in you.

What you revere reveals the quality of your heart.

Attachment to your moods and qualities shapes your path.

Even good qualities can hold you if you cling to them.

Some of us cling to comfort, some to busyness, some to numbness.

Small habits tilt the balance among the three.

A clear day is one where the light reaches every part of you.

Brightness of mind is felt in the senses.

Choose each day what you will feed: clarity, drive, or fog.

Faith comes in different flavours, shaped by temperament.

Some believe from clarity, some from drive, some from fear or fog.

Faith can be clear, restless, or heavy; notice which.

Notice whether your devotion calms you, drives you, or dulls you.

Intensity in everything can leave you restless; seek balance.

The quality of your mind colours everything you do.

Every quality of mind arises within something larger.

Nature's three strands tie the body; awareness slips free.

When you feel greedy and hurried, rajas is high; slow down.

Your actions are partly the work of qualities moving through you.

Dullness of heart can show up as carelessness in small things.

Rise above the pull of opposites; neither crave nor reject.

Calm, restless, and dull: three weathers of the mind.

Everyone swings between calm, restlessness, and dullness.

Stay close to calm, clear goodness; it steadies everything else.

What stays the same in you whatever mood you are in?

Which state of mind are you in right now, and who is noticing it?

The same task looks different through three different minds.

How would you describe the quality of your own faith?

From which quality does your faith tend to arise?