When you talk of inheritance, etc., you talk of genetic inheritance, which is purely scientific. When you speak of\u00a0gunas,<\/em>\u00a0you are talking of a different paradigm. I have never said that\u00a0gunas<\/em>\u00a0cannot be inherited; I have only said that all your\u00a0gunas<\/em>\u00a0are not inherited. Certain\u00a0gunas<\/em>\u00a0can be inherited, certain\u00a0gunas<\/em>\u00a0could be a result of your upbringing also\u2026If you are born in a\u00a0sattvik\u00a0<\/em>home, where people are predominantly\u00a0sattvik<\/em>, it\u2019s very easy to imbibe those\u00a0sattvik<\/em>\u00a0values and so the person become\u00a0sattvik<\/em>. Similarly, you are also born with some predispositions in life. This will be the\u00a0guna<\/em>\u00a0where you are coming from. Certain traits and talents are\u00a0gunas<\/em>\u00a0inherited from your parents, etc\u2026.So there is something you have brought from your previous lifetime, there will be something you have inherited, there will be something that will be a result of your upbringing and environment, and there will be something that you have consciously picked up. All this makes us the complex human beings we are. So there\u2019s no disharmony between what we are talking about and what Science is talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you talk of inheritance, etc., you talk of genetic inheritance, which is purely scientific. When you speak of\u00a0gunas,\u00a0you are talking of a different paradigm. I have never said that\u00a0gunas\u00a0cannot be inherited; I have only said that all your\u00a0gunas\u00a0are not inherited. Certain\u00a0gunas\u00a0can be inherited, certain\u00a0gunas\u00a0could be a result of your upbringing also\u2026If you are born… Continue reading You say that gunas can never be inherited, but then how do we explain some traits, talents, and dispositions that run in the family. Or are major gunas a carry-over from previous lives, and the family to be born in gets chosen accordingly?\u2013Sudhir Jain.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n