Bhagavad Gita 14.5
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्॥
sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛiti-sambhavāḥ nibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam
Translation
Harmony, Motion, Inertia, such are the qualities, Matter -born; they bind fast in the body, O great-armed one, the indestructible dweller in the body.
What it means
Sattva, rajas and tamas, harmony, motion and inertia, born of nature, bind the indestructible dweller in the body. The three gunas are introduced as the three ropes. Everything in experience is braided from them.
Try this today
The three gunas named: nature's three operating modes that bind the free resident.
Something to reflect on
Which of the three modes - clarity, drive, fog - is running me right now?
Read it in Yathora