Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Rajas

रजस् · rajas

passion; restless energy

The quality of motion and craving. Rajas drives activity, ambition and the thirst for more, and binds through attachment to action. Krishna names it as the source of the desire and anger that push a person to do wrong against their own will. What is done for show, for reward or with strain is of rajas.

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Bhagavad Gita 3.37 · Bhagavad Gita 14.7 · Bhagavad Gita 14.12 · Bhagavad Gita 18.24