The tamoguṇa dims the powers of discrimination in the human intellect and it comes to ‘ignore’ the Truth. To ignore ‘the Reality’ is the condition of ‘ignorance’. When the intellect is thus veiled, the mind projects, in fanciful imaginations, a world of multiplicity and it gets itself restless in the play of ‘rajas’. Thereafter, it distinguishes ‘far and near’, ‘outside and inside’, ‘gross and subtle’ and such other endless varieties of delusions.
