Know your mind type in 20 questions - Sattva, Rajas and Tamas

 Introduction:

Every person is different and everyone acts differently in different situations. According to ayurveda, it is governed by "Guna" that is 'Satva', 'Rajas' or 'Tamas'. These are all our state of mind.

                                        To know what guna dominates your mind, we will be conducting a test which comprises 20 questions and at the end of the test, you will have to count the number of a's, b's and c's, according to your mind. 

Mind types

Q1. At what time do you wake up in the morning ?

a) 4 am - 6 am

b) 6 am - 8 am

c) After 8 am

 

Q2. What kind of book would you prefer reading ?

a) Spiritual

b) Self development

c) Fiction

 

Q3. How is your behaviour with your family ?

a) Calm, composed and cheerful

b) Moody. You get angry quite often.

c) Mostly irritated. Dull.

 

Q4. How is the quality and duration of your sleep ?

a) Calm, peaceful. 6 hours is enough for you

b) You get dreams quite often, Need 8 hours of sleep

c) You need more than 8 hours of sleep. Sometimes, even face insomnia

 

Q5. Which of these colours would you prefer ?

a) Light shades like baby pink and white

b) Bright colours like red and orange

c) Dark shades like black, dark blue

 

Q6. How would you rate your memorising ability ?

a) good

b) moderate

c) weak

 

Q7. How honest are you ?

a) Always honest

b) Variable. Depends on the situation

c) You lie quite often

 

Q8. How much are you inclined towards charity ?

a) Quite often

b) Occasionally

c) Rarely

 

Q9. How often do you get angry ?

a) very rarely

b) sometimes

c) frequently

 

Q10. Your love is.... ?

a) Universal. For you all people are lovable

b) Personal. You love yourself and your close family members only

c) You hardly love anybody except yourself

 

Q11. How easily do you forgive others ?

a) very easily

b) need to make an effort to forgive others

c) can't forgive. You usually build grudges against people

 

Q12. How inclined are you towards cleanliness ?

a) Your room is always clean

b) sometimes clean, sometimes out of place

c) your room is mostly in a shabby state

 

Q13. How do people find your speech to be ?

a) peaceful and calming

b) a bit aggressive

c) dull and low sounding

 

Q14. What do you dwell in most of the time ?

a) in the present moment

b) In future. Thinking about your goals

c) In past memories

 

Q15. I am mostly ?

a) easy going

b) anxious, hyperactive

c) in depressive state of mind

 

Q16. Describe the way you work ?

a) without being attached to the results

b) seeking results and rewards

c) ah! no more work please. I want to relax

 

Q17. When faced with a challenge or a new situation ?

a) you are often resourceful and calm

b) you are often keen to improve and fix

c) you will rather curse the situation you are in

 

Q18. It's most important for you to ?

a) restore balance and harmony

b) solve a problem and innovate

c) find comfort and avoid confrontation

 

Q19. What music would you prefer listening to ?

a) soothing

b) loud

c) sad

 

Q20. Your life motto... ?

a) accept and go with the flow

b) strive to succeed

c) ignorance is bliss

Creative mind

                     Now you will have to count the number of a's, b's and c's. All the a's are sattva guna, b's are rajas guna and c's are tamas guna. The largest number is your dominant guna.

What dominates you ?

Sattva (ticked maximum a's)

Rajas (ticked maximum b's)

Tamas (ticked maximum c's)

Sattva means goodness and purity. It is characterised by balance and harmony.

Rajas means passion. It is the tendency to be active.

Tamas means ignorance, darkness and dullness.

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Like your ayurvedic body type, kapha, pitta and vata, it can also be changed by doing some lifestyle changes.

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                                 Now in today life, it is very difficult to be sattvic but ayurveda mentions that we can change our guna by just doing small changes in our eating habits.

·        If yo are tamasic then you should cut down frozen food, packaged food, non-vegetarian food and even onion and garlic. 20 minutes of daily exercise can also help you in changing your guna.

·        If you are rajasic then you are eating too much salty, spicy, sweet, hot and cold food. They make the mind agitated and confused. You should eat slowly and cut down too much salty and spicy food. Daily yoga practice can also help you  with this.

·        If you are sattvic then it is great. Continue doing that. Sattvic food includes home-made food, fruits, nuts, lentils etc.

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Conclusion:

Ayurveda also suggests that the food is not the only way to convert your guna but it is the way in which the food is eaten because the same food which is sattvic can get converted into rajasic or tamasic. Like, if you have an apple which is fresh, so that is sattvic but if you cut that same apple and eat with salt then it is rajasic. If you eat that same apple after refrigerating it then it will be a tamasic food. So it is not the food, it is the way in which it is eaten.

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