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Rajas
Rajas (Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three Guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. The other two qualities are Sattva (goodness, balance) and Tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that drives motion, energy and activity.Rajas is sometimes translated as passion, where it is used in the sense of activity, without any particular value and it can contextually be either good or bad. Rajas helps actualize the other two gunas.
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Rajas
In the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Rajas or rajoguna is one of the three gunas. Of these, rajas, is responsible for motion, energy and preservation. and thereby upholds and maintains the activity of the other two gunas, known as sattva and tamas.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rajas in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rajas in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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