The universal quality representing inertia, inactivity, and lethargy. Tamasic foods include processed and frozen meals, refined sugar and carbs, meat, alcohol, onions, and garlic.
One of the three gunas of Prakruti or Nature,- its characteristics are darkness, inertia, and ignorance, it is responsible for sleep, drowsiness, dullness, unconsciousness.
The quality of nature that reflects dullness, inertia and darkness.