Philosophers define sat as goodness, rajas as passion and tamas as ignorance. But there are alternate definitions.
sat means existence, that which is. One of the meanings of this is matter. It can simply be said to be the present participle of the root “as” which means “to be” . This is for people who accept that matter exists (and not an illusion).
rajas means light, that which shines.
tamas is darkness.
The three gunAs or “ropes that bind the self to nature” are sat, rajas and tamas – matter, light and darkness.
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Sakthi is energy, potential, competence. Its also a name of the Devi. I always think that the name s’aci (Indra‘s wife) is a variant of s’akti.
Some Indian philosophies talk of Purusha, the Consciousness as father and Prakruti, Nature as the mother.
Some say that Devi is Cidsvaroopi or the form of consciousness.
But nearly all Indian philosophies agree that it is Consciousness from which everything comes. Some of them hold that Nature and Consciousness are interdependent either as wife and husband (or as the blind and lame).
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Matter is sparsely distributed in the universe.
What fills the universe? Strong energy fields.
What causes these energy fields? Matter! (Magnetic, electric, gravitational, electromagnetic..)
Matter by virtue of its existence or movement causes all the energy fields we know about the gravitational and the electromagnetic.
“Sakthi” fills the universe. But it is caused by “sat!”
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The “matter affected” by the electromagnetic wave can also scatter it or distort the field. That means matter can affect other matter “right back” as well as make things different for all other matter!
So all the matter together creates all the energy fields through the universe, which moves matter about further altering the energy fields.
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It takes Time for matter to affect other matter. The effects are not instantaneous. It takes Time for “matter effects” or waves to reach the affected matter.
- Time : Past, Present and Future : Bhuta Bhavya Bhavan Nathah Vishnuh
- Time : Why study time ? : “Kaalah Aham – I am Time” – Krishna
- Time : Kalakantha, kalamurthi, kalagni, kalanasana, Siva : Markandeya : Maghamahatmya
- Time and Space : Are Time and Space “side-effect” of matter? Is Space empty? or full of some”thing” else?
- Time and Space : Are Time and Space “side-effect” of matter? Is Space empty? or full of some”thing” else?
- Time, Matter, Energy and Consciousness : Kaala, Sat, Sakthi, Purusha/Devi
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“Magnetic fields can be created by electric currents, which in turn are electric charges in motion. So far so good, at least until you ponder ‘in motion relative to what?’, to which a reasonable answer is ‘relative to you’ in your (static) inertial frame. However, suppose now that you moved alongside the wire carrying the current, and at the same velocity as the flow of electric charges within it. In such a case you would now perceive the charges to be at rest. An electric charge at rest relative to you, in an inertial frame, gives rise to an electric field, so in this situation you perceive there to be an electric field whereas previously you felt magnetism. Speed up or slow down and magnetic fields will emerge at the expense of the electric ones. What was a magnetic field in one inertial frame has become an electric field in another. Whether you interpret the field as electric or magnetic depends on your own motion.
