Verse-27
Chapter 18 — Moksha Sanyasa Yoga
Verse 27
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
rāgī karmaphalaprepsurlubdho hiṁsātmako'śuciḥ
harṣaśokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ
🕉 English Translation
Ragi hai jo phal ko chahe sadaa,
Hinsa ka swabhay lalach bhara.
Harash shok jisme ashudh bhi hai jo,
Samjho ki hai rajasi karta woh.
📜 Translation
English
The worker who is passionate, desirous of fruit of action, greedy, is possessed of violent nature, impure and is affected by joy and sorrow-he has been called rajasic.
The state of the rajasic worker is totally opposite to that of the satvic. For the satvic worker the first, word used is 'muktsango', i.e. free from attachment. Here the word passionate has been used for the rajasic worker. If the desire for fruit is entertained since inception then attachment too will be there. That is attained without desire, is the grace of the Lord, in which the possibility of attachment in accordance with the bent of mind wanes. But when the desire for reward is there then attachment towards both work and its reward will accompany it.
The nature of desire is to keep on multipying. With desires, the craving for more and more is known as avarice. One's own pleasure, comfort-the intellect is confined to this extent. If someone creates an obstacle then one will not lose the opportunity of destroying or harming him. To cause discomfort, trouble, harm to anyone in any way is violence. For such a worker there is no distinction between purity and impurity. There is no attention paid to the purity of the body, nor of the clothes, eating habits nor even in conduct. When everything is found to be favourable then elation and if in the least there is unfavourability then despondency-grief, meaning the state of wavering. All these are the signs of a rajasic doer.