◘Gunas or Trigunas are the three distinct constituent qualities of Maya. They are called Sattva, Rajas and Tamas.

◘These three gunas are present in everyone and everything in the entire creation, in different combinations and proportion.

◘This combination of gunas in varied proportion causes diversity. Just like how the mix of basic colors red, green and blue in different proportions and combinations give rise to innumerable other colors.

◘Sattva is the quality of knowledge, balance, harmony, purity, creativity, positivity, peacefulness, and virtue.

◘Rajas is the quality of passion, activity and self-centeredness.

◘Tamas is the quality of imbalance, disorder, anxiety, dullness, lethargy, violence, ignorance, procrastination and indifference.

◘The character of an individual or substance, is viewed as the net result of the joint effect of these three gunas. Hence Gunas pose an important factor in our behavior and subsequent life situations.

◘As Light is unaffected by Maya, It is also called as Nirguna, meaning no guna.