गुण (Guna) Objective reality is actually the cross-roads for three mutually exclusive modes of existence. These modes “flavor” all matter in various concentrations. The current descriptions of these concepts, the गुण (Guna) have been assembled from the work of Hindu and Sikh scholars, as documented in the Bhagavad Gita. According to them the three Guna are:

सत्त्व (Sattva) - the quality of balance, harmony, goodness, purity, universalizing, holistic, constructive, creative, building, positive attitude, luminous, serenity, being-ness, peaceful, virtuous.
रजस् (Rejas) - the quality of passion, activity, neither good nor bad and sometimes either, self-centeredness, egoistic, individualizing, driven, moving, dynamic.
तमस् (Tamas) - the quality of of imbalance, disorder, chaos, anxiety, impure, destructive, delusion, negative, dull or inactive, apathy, inertia or lethargy, violent, vicious, ignorant,