The mode of goodness obviously sounds like the best doesn’t it? The mode of goodness is the most rare. Unfortunately it is not the mode that affects us the most because we’ve almost eliminated it from our lives. Nature is in the mode of goodness. When you go into nature you feel a certain influence. You feel more calm and peaceful, beauty is all around...
More4. Mode of goodness: food and activities
So now food, every food is in one of these three modes: goodness, passion or ignorance. Fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds and dairy products are in the mode of goodness. If you eat those foods they will influence you in this way. Uniquely enough this is the prescribed diet for the human form of life. According to the Vedas this is what you...
More5. Mode of passion
Let’s look at the mode of passion. Passion is exactly like it sounds, you are passionate about life and you are driven. People in the mode of passion, they are just driven, they always have unlimited desires to achieve this, achieve that, success, success. They are the people who are always trying to get ahead, of what I do not know. Get ahead of...
More6. Mode of ignorance
The mode of ignorance is dark, very dark. Some of the symptoms are intoxication, meat eating, lots of sleep, no ambition, just enough to survive. They are not trying to go anywhere; they are just on the bottom looking up. It is a very dark hellish mode, so that is not a good place to be. It is as if you are in a cloud; you’re just covered. Then foods,...
More7. Dark time
Kali Yuga. It is stated that in Kali Yuga everyone is born in the mode of ignorance. The predominating modes are passion and ignorance, almost no mode of goodness. Whereas in Satya Yuga, for instance, the golden age is completely the mode of goodness, almost no ignorance and very little passion. So it is very, very different. We are in a dark age right now....
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