Three Types of Faith
The faith of embodied beings is of three kinds—sattvic, rajasic, and tamasic—according to the gunas that predominate in them.
Faith itself comes in three varieties corresponding to the gunas. Sattvic faith is directed toward truth, goodness, and the Divine. Rajasic faith pursues power, wealth, and worldly success. Tamasic faith involves superstition, harmful practices, and misguided worship. Our faith reveals our nature—what we worship, we become. This teaching encourages examining the quality of our faith and gradually purifying it toward higher objects.
According to the modes of nature acquired by the embodied soul, one's faith can be of three kinds—in goodness, in passion, or in ignorance.
What we value and pursue shapes our character—this verse invites self-examination: what is the quality of what I worship?
Bhagavad Gita