A “doer” belonging to the PASSIONATE type is being exhaustively painted here. He is full of desires, passions and attachments, and he tenaciously clings on to some wished-for gain or goal. He is swayed by passion (raaga) and eagerly seeks the fruit of his work. He is ever greedy (Lubdhah) in the sense that such a Rajasic “doer” is never satisfied with what he gains and greedily thirsts for more. His thirst is insatiable because his desires multiply from moment to moment.
When a man, full of desires and passions, works with mounting greed, he naturally becomes very malignant (Himsaatmakah) in his programmes of pursuit. He never hesitates to injure another, if such injury were to win his end. He is blind to the amount of sorrow he might bring to others; he is concerned only with the realisation of his ulterior motives. When a man of this type (with the above qualities) becomes maliciously resolved to gain his own ends, it is but natural that he becomes impure (Ashuchih), meaning “immoral.”
Even unrighteous methods and vulgar immoralities are no ban to such a “doer” and he will pursue them, if his particular desire can be fulfilled thereby. He may ordinarily be quite a moral and righteous man, but the beauty of his composure and the steadiness of his morality, expressed during his quieter moments, all fly away as brilliant splinters when the sledge hammer of his greed and passion, vengeful plans and malignant schemes, thuds upon his heart.
It is but natural that such a PASSIONATE “doer,” when he acts in his blinding desires, comes to live, all through his embodied existence, a sad life of agitations, moved by joys and sorrows, “full of delight and grief,” (Harsha-Shoka-Anvitah). This completes the picture of a man who is a ‘passionate’ (Rajasic) “doer.”
AND HOW DOES A TAMASIC “DOER” FUNCTION IN THE FIELD OF ACTIVITY?
