According to Vyāsa, the five types of vṛttis identified by Patañjali are either experienced as pleasurable in nature, resulting in attachment (sattva); unpleasurable, resulting in aversion (rajas); or deluded, resulting in ignorance (tamas).

Pratibhā simultaneously means intuitive insight, embodied instinct, and spontaneous inspiration.

In the Sāṅkhya (literally, numeration) system, the universe of animate and inanimate entities is perceived as ultimately the product of two ontologically distinct categories;