BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:27

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:27

 

ragi karma-phala-prepsur

lubdho himsatmako 'sucih

harsa-sokanvitah karta

rajasah parikirtitah

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

ragi--very much attached; karma-phala--the fruit of the work;

prepsuh--desiring; lubdhah--greedy; himsa-atmakah--always envious;

asucih--unclean; harsa-soka-anvitah--subject to joy and sorrow;

karta--such a worker; rajasah--in the mode of passion;

parikirtitah--is declared.

 

TRANSLATION

 

The worker who is attached to work and the fruits of work, desiring to

enjoy those fruits, and who is greedy, always envious, impure, and

moved by joy and sorrow, is said to be in the mode of passion.

 

PURPORT

 

A person is too much attached to a 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 in 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 the worker in the mode of passion.

 

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