Chapter 18 Verse 27 of 78

• rāgī karma-phala-prepsur
• lubdho hiḿsātmako 'śuciḥ
• harṣa-śokānvitaḥ kartā
• rājasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ

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.

Synonyms

• rāgī

  very much attached

• phala

  the fruit of the work

• prepsuḥ

  desiring

• lubdhaḥ

  greedy

• ātmakaḥ

  always envious

• aśuciḥ

  unclean

• anvitaḥ

  subject to joy and sorrow

• kartā

  such a worker

• rājasaḥ

  in the mode of passion

• parikīrtitaḥ

  is declared.

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