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Aligning Consciousness

Ch 18Verse 24
Adhyāya 18 Shloka 24

यत्तु कामेप्सुना कर्म साहङ्कारेण वा पुनः | क्रियते बहुलायासं तद्राजसमुदाहृतम् || २४ ||

yat tu kāmepsunā karma sāhaṅkāreṇa vā punaḥ | kriyate bahulāyāsaṁ tad rājasam udāhṛtam || 24 ||

"But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in the mode of passion."

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The Direct Meaning

Action in the mode of passion (rājasam) is chaotic and exhausting. It is performed primarily to gratify intense personal desires (kāmepsunā) and is heavily driven by a massive sense of false ego or pride (sāhaṅkāreṇa). The defining physical symptom of this action is 'bahulāyāsam'—it requires huge, stressful, and disproportionate amounts of effort.

Translated from the original Sanskrit text

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