Tamas
The quality of inertia, heaviness, and dullness associated with foods and behaviors that promote stagnation and unconsciousness.
Tamas — The Quality of Inertia
Tamas is one of the three mental qualities (gunas) that define manas prakruti. Tamasic qualities express as dullness, gloominess, depression, sadness, and laziness. Tamas is described as the crystallization of experience.
Source: Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles, Chapter Two: Universal Attributes and Doshic Theory
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