Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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12.21. But if it chiefly cleaves to vice and to virtue in a small degree, it suffers, deserted by the elements, the
torments inflicted by Yama.
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12.22. The individual soul, having endured those torments of Yama, again enters, free from taint, those very
five elements, each in due proportion.
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12.23. Let (man), having recognised even by means of his intellect these transitions of the individual soul
(which depend) on merit and demerit, always fix his heart on (the acquisition of) merit.
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12.24. Know Goodness (sattva), Activity (ragas), and Darkness (tamas) to be the three qualities of the Self, with
which the Great One always completely pervades all existences.
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12.25. When one of these qualities wholly predominates in a body, then it makes the embodied (soul) eminently
distinguished for that quality.
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12.26. Goodness is declared (to have the form of) knowledge, Darkness (of) ignorance, Activity (of) love and
hatred; such is the nature of these (three) which is (all-) pervading and clings to everything created.
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12.27. When (man) experiences in his soul a (feeling) full of bliss, a deep calm, as it were, and a pure light, then
let him know (that it is) among those three (the quality called) Goodness.
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12.28. What is mixed with pain and does not give satisfaction to the soul one may know (to be the quality of)
Activity, which is difficult to conquer, and which ever draws embodied (souls towards sensual objects).
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12.29. What is coupled with delusion, what has the character of an undiscernible mass, what cannot be
fathomed by reasoning, what cannot be fully known, one must consider (as the quality of) Darkness.
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12.30. I will, moreover, fully describe the results which arise from these three qualities, the excellent ones, the
middling ones, and the lowest.