Ahenkara ❲ESSENTIAL × Version❳

| Type | Guṇa | Characteristic | |------|------|----------------| | | Sattva (clarity, harmony) | Pure sense of "I am" — leads to discernment, virtue, spiritual progress | | Rājasa | Rajas (activity, passion) | "I am the doer / enjoyer" — leads to desire, effort, attachment, karma | | Tāmasa | Tamas (inertia, darkness) | "I am this inert body" — leads to dullness, confusion, materialism |

Thus, — the filter through which the world is perceived as "me" and "mine." ahenkara

In Yoga, the goal is to purify and transcend Ahaṃkāra, not destroy the sāttvika form entirely until Self-realization. materialism | Thus