The agent who is passionate, seeking the fruits of action, greedy, violent by nature, impure, swayed by joy and grief — that agent is declared to be rajasic.
रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर्लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः | हर्षशोकान्वितः कर्ता राजसः परिकीर्तितः ||१८-२७||
The Bhagavad Gita, translated and commentated by S. Radhakrishnan, is one of the most scholarly and accessible English renderings of Hinduism's most beloved scripture — the dialogue between Arjuna and Lord Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Radhakrishnan, philosopher and statesman, brings both rigorous intellectual insight and genuine spiritual depth to his translation and notes. This edition is treasured for its ability to illuminate the Gita's universal spiritual teaching across cultural and philosophical boundaries.
This is the threefold gate of hell that destroys the self: desire, anger, and greed. Therefore one should abandon these three.
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः | कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ||१६-२१||
As soon as the desire for one thing is satisfied, the urge for another follows. Every time man thinks that he will not ask for anything more if he gets this particular object. But he starts wanting something else as soon as the earlier want is satisfied. This chain will never end and you will remain involved in this vast material world.
Farid, greed and love cannot coexist; greed destroys love. How long can someone stay under a leaky roof in the rain?