Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 27

Contents

• 1 रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचि: |
• 2 हर्षशोकान्वित: कर्ता राजस: परिकीर्तित: ||
• 3 भावार्थ:
• 4 Translation

रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचि: |

हर्षशोकान्वित: कर्ता राजस: परिकीर्तित: ||

rāgī karma-phala-prepsur lubdho hinsātmako ‘śhuchiḥ
harṣha-śhokānvitaḥ kartā rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ

भावार्थ:

जो कर्ता आसक्ति से युक्त कर्मों के फल को चाहने वाला और लोभी है तथा दूसरों को कष्ट देने के स्वभाववाला, अशुद्धाचारी और हर्ष-शोक से लिप्त है वह राजस कहा गया है॥27॥

Translation

The performer is considered in the mode of passion when he or she craves the fruits of the work, is covetous, violent-natured, impure, and moved by joy and sorrow.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.27 Karta, the agent; ragi, who has attachment; karma-phala-prepsuh, who is desirous of the results of actions; lubdhah, covetous, greedy for other’s property, and does not part with his own (when) at holy places; himsatmakah, cruel by nature, having a nature that cuases pain to others; asucih, unclean, devoid of internal and external cleanliness; and harsa-soka-anvitah, subject to joy and sorrow, affected by these two, joy and sorrow-joy at the acisition of desired objects, sorrow at getting undesired objects and losing coverted objects; and elation and dejection may occur to that very person from his actions being aided or hindered; one who is subject to those-; parikirtitah, is declared to be; rajasah, possessed of rajas.

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