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CHAPTER II. " EACH IS GREAT IN HIS OWN PLACE."
According to the Sankhya philosophy, there are in nature three kinds of forces called, in Sanskrit, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These as manifested in the physical world are what we may call attraction, repulsion, and the control of the two. Sattva is what exercises the control, Rajas is the repulsion, while Famas is the attraction. Tamas is typified as darkness or inactivity; Rajas as activity, where each particle is trying to fly off from the attracting centre; and Sattva is the equilibrium of the two, giving a due balancing of both. .
Now in every man there are these three forces ; in each of us we find that sometimes the Tamas prevails; we become lazy; we cannot move; we are inactive, bound down by certain ideas or by mere dulness. At other times activity will prevail in us, and at still other times that calm balancing
