Gita Chapter 18 – Verse 27  «   »

रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः ।
हर्षशोकान्वितः कर्ता राजसः परिकीर्तितः ॥ १८-२७॥


rāgī karmaphalaprepsurlubdho hiṃsātmako’śuciḥ
harṣaśokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ 18-27


Passionate, desiring to gain the fruits-of-actions, greedy, harmful, impure, full of delight and grief, such an agent is said to be RAJASIC (passionate) .


rāgī = very much attached; karmaphala = the fruit of the work; prepsuḥ = desiring; lubdhaḥ = greedy; hiṃsātmakaḥ = always envious; aśuciḥ = unclean; harṣaśokānvitaḥ = subject to joy and sorrow; kartā = such a worker; rājasaḥ = in the mode of passion; parikīrtitaḥ = is declared.;

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