Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-18, Slokam - 27.

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Thursday, July 21. 2022. 20:30. 

Chapter-18.  Moksha-sannyasa-yogam.

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Slokam-27.


"Ragi   karmaphalaprepsuh  lubdho   himsatmakosucih,

harshasokanvitah   karta    rajasah   parikirtitah."

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Slokam-27.   

But that worker who is attached to the fruits of his labor and who passionately wants to enjoy them, who is greedy, envious and impure and moved by happiness and distress, is a worker in the mode of passion.

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Translation  :

Ragi   =  one  who  is  very  much  attached  to  sensuous-objects  and;

karma  phala  prepsuh  =  deep  desire  in  the  fruits  of  karmam  and;

lubdhah  =  not  fulfiled  ( satisfied )  with  any  levels / more  and  more  greedy  and;

himsatmakah   asucih  =  drohi  (  one  who  inflict  injury  to  others  by  thought,  word,  and  activity )  and  does  not  know  what  is  purity  and;

harsha-soka-anvitah   karta   =   complicated, with joy and sorrow  (  one  could  not  manage  /   not  a  able  manager  of  handling  joy  and  sorrow  equally );

rajasah   parikirtitah  =   is  called  a  Rajasan.

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Commentary :

Now Lord Krishna describes the nature of one performing activities in raja guna the mode of passion. 

One who is ragi zealously ambitious in seeking fame, power, wealth, etc. 

One who is prepsun always hankering for recompense and reward. 

One who is as much or impure and greedy, envious and unrighteous causing injury to others by mental and physical cruelty. 

Such a one who is never in equipoise, who rejoices at success but is depressed by failure is indisputably known to be situated in raja guna.

One who performs actions with an obsession to profit, who desires only to reap rewards, who is covetous of others possessions. 

Who is greedy and malevolent, enacting unrighteous acts against others for material gain including killing. 

Who is unclean internally and externally. 

Who is elated by success but despondent in failure. 

Such a one is irrevocably situated in raja guna the mode of passion.

One who is attached to actions due to craving for rewards, who is impelled by sense gratification, who is envious of others, who is greedy, unrighteous and prone to cruelty from an oppressive nature inhibiting the welfare of others. 

Who is joyful gaining benefit but sorrowful at incurring loss. Such a one is undeniably situated in raja guna the mode of passion.

A person is too much attached to certain kind of work or to the result because he has too much attachment for materialism or hearth and home, wife and children. 

Such a person has no desire for higher elevation of life. 

He is simply concerned with making this world as materially comfortable as possible. 

He is generally very greedy, and he thinks that anything attained by him is permanent and never to be lost. 

Such a person is envious of others and prepared to do anything wrong for sense gratification. 

Therefore such a person is unclean, and he does not care whether his earning is pure or impure. 

He is very happy if his work is successful and very much distressed when his work is not successful. 

Such is a man in the mode of passion.

To be continued  ....



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