Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t10.28

v1.c7.s7.t10.28

The school maintained that the three gunas were subject to mutual inhibition, interdependence, mutual generation and interaction, and in different things there might be different compositions of gunas at work, with a particular guna playing a dominant role. *Prakriti* also contains three gunas: when the three gunas are balanced, *Prakriti* will remain latent, but once such a balance is upset, *Prakriti* will give rise to all kinds of worldly phenomena. The upsetting of balance among the three gunas is directly related to the impact of *Purusha* on *Prakriti*.