Through the yogic lens, all of life is made up of three essential qualities. These qualities are called the gunas, and according to Sankhya philosophy, they are the three characteristics in which prakriti, or cosmic matter, can manifest.
In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar offers some simple explanations to describe the three gunas: rajas, tamas, and sattva. Rajas is the quality of activity and mobility that is responsible for movement, and having an excess of rajas can lead to willful stubbornness. Tamas is the quality of inertia and form and is associated with delusion, obscurity, and ignorance. Sattva is often considered a goal of one’s yoga practice and is the quality of clarity, tranquility, and truth-illumination.
While one guna may be more dominant within you than another guna, it’s important that we embrace all three gunas because they each have an essential role in our lives. In doing so, we can view the gunas as a complete and functional system, which, when utilized wisely, brings us into balance. Learn more about your primary guna by taking this quiz.
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Great quiz really enjoyed it.
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Good quiz, however the suggestion to add more carbs & root veg is not going to happen. Too much sugar in carbs & root veg. My body reacts better to high fats (Good fats) & protein.
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Options should be more like usual life…
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how do I access the results of this quiz?
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Id like to take the Guna quiz
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This test is interesting and has the perfect amount of questions to get a quick anser to what my main guna is.
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Great test. It affirmed my Sattva guna state of mind. Thanks!!
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Its uplifting to have Sattva as my result.
Its taken many, many years of committment and embracing practices to understand and notice when Im not ‘somatically wired’
Very helpful to know about yuorself
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Some answers were not quite accurate but I had to pick something to go to the next question
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I will be thankful to you if you help me to know myself.
Some options are not appropriate and confusion. In some questions I could not find suitable answer.
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