The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 4.4. Swami Krishnananda.
---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 10, 2020. 7:25.AM. Chapter 4: Duty – An Empirical Manifestation of True Being-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Kama is a very wide word, with a meaning which is capable of covering every form of longing. When desire intensifies itself, we call it passion. In Sanskrit we have many words indicating the same meaning: raga, kama, etc. An intense longing for something, an intense craving to do something, a yearning to possess something in an overwhelmingly powerful manner, is a passion – a kama, a raga. Any obstacle in the direction of the fulfilment of this passion becomes the target of anger of that person. Krodha follows therefore, as a brother of kama – and when one is, the other one also is. These impulsions are the products or the results of a very active manifestation of rajoguna – rajas – that is present in human personality, and no one can subdue t...