Sattva is the faithful servant of the self!
Tamas and rajas (inertia, darkness and restlessness, passion) work together and keep sattva (clarity, harmony) down. Tamas and Rajas must be conquered before Sattva can appear.
Meditation is a sattvic activity and aims at complete elimination of tamas and rajas (inertia and restlessness) . Pure sattva is perfect freedom from sloth and restlessness (tamas and rajas).
So far your life was dark and restless (tamas and rajas). Attention, alertness, awareness, clarity, liveliness, vitality, are all manifestations of integrity, oneness with your true nature (sattva).
lt is in the nature of sattva to reconcile and neutralise tamas and rajas and rebuild the personality in accordance with the true nature of the self. Sattva is the faithful servant of the self; ever attentive and obedient.
The world seen in consciousness is to be of the nature of consciousness, when there is harmony (sattva); but when activity and passivity (rajas and tamas) appear, they obscure and distort andyou see the false as real.
Harmony and beauty, understanding and affection are all expressions of reality. It is reality in action, the impact of the spirit on matter.
Tamas obscures, rajas distorts, sattva harmonises.
With the maturing of the sattva all desires and fears come to an end. The real being is reflected in the mind undistorted . Matter is redeemed, spirit -- revealed. The two are seen as one. They were always one, but the imperfect mind saw them as two.
Perfection of the mind is the human task, for matter and spirit meet in the mind.