> > It almost seems as if the three gunas are > > telling them to STFU. :-) > > blusc0ut: > Well, I think the gunas don't like to be > exposed. They want to keep the show > running. If you make a movie, you don't > remind the audience that it's just a > movie, you want them to, eh, believe it's > real. > So, you're thinking that, just like in a "movie", the physical world we live in is just like a picture show, not real, yet not unreal? And, that because we have "free will" we can change the physical properties of basic elements and enter into history and cause change to occur, at will?
The "three gunas" are the forces of nature, the primary constiuents of prakriti. It is totally separate from the Purusha. If the prakriti is an illusion, are you saying that we should believe that individual jivas have "free will" to do as they please, and that yogis can make their karma just disappear? If so, there would be chaos instead of order in the human universe, since without the laws of nature or causation, events that happen could not be associated with actions. Then, Arjuna in the Battle of Kurukshetra, could have raped and murdered his entire family, without the slightest consequences. The question is, does Karma (and the three gunas) have a *mental* component or not?
