Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 16 - Swami Krishnananda.
============================================================== ============================================================== Saturday, January 22, 2022. 8:00.PM Discourse 41 The Fourteenth Chapter: Rising Above the Three Gunas POST-16. =============================================================== Lobhah pravrttir arambhah karmanam asamah sprha, rajasyetani jayante vivrddhe bharatarsabha (14.12) : When rajas becomes active, there is greed in the mind of a person. There is a sense of possessiveness—“I want this; I want that”— and the person is never satisfied with anything. The more we have, the more we want; that is called greed, and it is one of the characteristics of rajoguna. Always starting new projects but not being able to bring them to conclusion, never ceasing activity, and going on creating occasions for activity till the end of one's life, with desire at the back of all these projects of action, these are supposed to be the basic qualities of rajoguna. ----------...