Bhagavad-gītā As It Is • Ch 18
TEXT 24
Conclusion — The Perfection of Renunciation
यत्तु कामेप्सुना कर्म साहंकारेण वा पुनः ।
क्रियते बहुलायासं तद्राजसमुदाहृतम् ॥२४॥
yat tu kāmepsunā karma
sāhaṅkāreṇa vā punaḥ
kriyate bahulāyāsaṁ
tad rājasam udāhṛtam
Synonymsशब्दार्थ• Word-for-Word Analysis• प्रत्येक शब्द का अर्थ
yat — that which; tu — but; kāma-īpsunā — with fruitive result; karma — work; sāhaṅkāreṇa — with ego; vā — or; punaḥ — again; kriyate — performed; bahula-āyāsam — with great labor; tat — that; rājasam — in the mode of passion; udāhṛtam — is said to be.
यत् — जो; तु — लेकिन; काम — ईप्सुना - फल की इच्छा रखने वाले केद्वारा; कर्म — कर्म; स — अहङ्कारेण - अहंकार सहित; वा — अथवा; पुनः — फिर; क्रियते — किया जाता है; बहुल आयासम् — कठिन परिश्रम से; तत् — वह; राजसम् — राजसी; उदाहृतम् — कहा जाता है |.
Translationअनुवाद
But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and which is enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in the mode of passion.
लेकिन जो कार्य अपनी इच्छा पूर्ति के निमित्त प्रयासपूर्वक एवं मिथ्याअहंकार के भाव से किया जाता है, वह रजोगुणी कहा जाता है |