The Divine Mother is endowed with the three gunas namely, Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas.
She is in three gunas’ form. Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas are three basics fundamental gunas. The whole universe is based on these three gunas. If we prepare a picture with all colours and structures, we cannot see anything beyond these three gunas, in this universe. Sattva Guna is whitish; Rajas Guna is reddish; Tamas Guna is blackish. Creation, sustaining and Samharam or destroying are three things happening continuously in this universe due to Maya. Rajas is used for creation, sattva is used for sustaining, and tamas is used for Samharam of the universal beings. These three gunas mentioned in Purusa tattva. By praying to Brahman, the souls reach the Para Brahman for eternal life.
Mualapraktri, the Divine Mother, is the originator of three gunas. These three show upon them in Ahankara tattva. The Divine Mother is in that form as well.
The earliest mention of gunas occurred in Sankhya philosophy. Everything in nature is made of three gunas. In varying degrees, these three gunas are fused into all living beings and things in this universe. For this reason, the Divine Mother, who is prakriti (nature) is called Triguna.
Bhaskarayacarya quotes from the Puranas in support of this fact. “Devi, who is Yogeshvari, by Her sport creates and destroys forms, appears in multitude of forms, with many functions and many names. She is three-fold in nature and is therefore called Triguna” (Vayu Purana is referred). And “I reserve that eternal power which is the basis of the three gunas and which resides in all beings in this universe, (Vishnu Purana is referred).
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Divine Mother is endowed with the three gunas.
C N Nachiappan
Singapore, 04 October 2022;
updated 05 November 2025.
References:
1.The Thousand Names of the Divine Mother published by Mata Amritanandam in California, USA, with Commentary by T. V Narayana Menon
2, Shri Lalitha Sahasranama Stostram
published in Tamil by N. Ramaswami Iyer charities’ societies, Tiruchirappalli,
India, with Commentary by C. V. Radhakrishna Sastry.
3. The Lalitha Sahasranamam published
in Tamil by Shri Ramakrishna Thapovanam, Thiruipparaithurai, Trichy District,
Tamil Nadu, India with commentary by Shrimath Swami Sith-Bavandar
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