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Chapter 18
When the Lord declared, that tamasa action,[1] and tamasa doer - both are oppressive, He meant to explain, that actions by a tamasa agent, are not performed with discrimination, because of delusion. So he is oppressive, in his daily life. A rajasa person, enjoys mundane pleasure, then other people who suffer from want have a heart-bum to see them, enjoy such pleasures. It means, that a tamasa person, does injury to others, through his actions, while a rajasa person, himself is oppressive.
Asucih:- A passionate person, makes things and objects, which he amasses, for his enjoyment, impure. He pollutes, the environment. The clothes, which he wears become impure. So no one wants to use the clothes, of a person, who was attached to them, even after his death. One cannot concentrate his mind on God, at such a place, where the dead body of such a man, is cremated. If any person, sleeps there, he has bad and horrible dreams. This passion or attachment for the perishable, makes a body or even bones, impure.
Haraakokanvitah:- He is ever-entangled, in pleasure and pain, attachment and aversion etc., because of success and failure, and pleasant and unpleasant, desirable and undesirable incidents and circumstances etc., which do come across man during his daily life.
Karla rajasah pariktrtttah:- The agent, who possesses the above-mentioned characteristics, is called passionate or 'Rajas' .
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