Abstract

Personality is a dynamic and organized set of attributes processed by an individual that uniquely influence his thought and action. Personality may be predicted from traditional Gunas analysis. Gunas, the three Vedic personality patterns are sattva, rajas and tamas. The present research is an attempt to investigate the difference of Gunas between students of Yogic and Modern Education System. The sample of one hundred sixty respondents was randomly selected from both education systems (80 yogic & 80 modern) of Agra and adjacent areas.  Sample was matched on the basis of gender, age range and socio-economic status. For measuring Gunas ‘Gita Inventory of Personality’ by Das (1991) was used. 2x2 Factorial Design was implemented and the data was analyzed by employing Analysis of Variance. The results reveal that Yogic Education System [(F_EduSys (1, 156) =10.38, p < .01) with _YogicEduSys = 38.39 > _ModernEduSys =33.17] promotes Sattva gunas in students while Modern Education System [(F_EduSys (1, 156) =16.06, p < .01) with   _ModernEduSys =2.60 > _YogicEduSys = 1.41]; facilitates Tamas gunas in them. It shows that there is a significant difference in Sattva and Tamas gunas between students of Yogic and Modern Education System