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rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam . tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam
昆提之子啊，当知激性（rajas）源于渴望与执着，其本性为激情。它通过对行动的执着来束缚有形体者。
Know rajas to be of the nature of passion, born of hankering and attachment. O son of Kunti, that binds the embodied one through attachment to action.
激性（Rajas）的特质代表着活动和抱负。激性之人充满渴望和欲望，这些渴望驱使他们采取行动以求满足。他们执着于那些帮助他们实现愿望的人，并憎恨那些阻碍他们的人。他们执着于行动，从事各种宏大事业，进行各种祭祀、仪式和慈善活动。他们追逐感官享乐，其欲望如油添之火般永不满足。真我并非行动者，而是寂静的见证者，但激性却在人心中制造出“我是行动者”的念头。激性愉悦心智，并使激情持续不灭。激性之人永不满足，总是贪婪不安。他们获得越多，就越是充满激情和贪婪，欲望倍增，永无满足。如果他们是百万富翁，就会努力成为亿万富翁，这就像火上浇油，使其燃烧更旺。激性之人丧失理解力和辨别力，其理解力被蒙蔽，沉醉于财富的傲慢之中，智力变得浑浊，拥有扭曲的智力。由于智力扭曲，痛苦在他们看来是幸福，疼痛在他们看来是快乐，悲伤在他们看来是喜悦。他们的目标是金钱和女人，他们崇拜财神。他们追逐名誉、声望和舒适，并沉溺于无休止的活动中。敏捷常与鱼、闪电和女人的目光联系在一起，但激性比这些更快。激性之人比这些更活跃。他们会想：“我的财产消失后会怎样？”从而不必要地担忧，并从事无休止的活动。他们内心没有平静，渴望尚未获得之物，并执着于已获得之物，希望并努力保护自己的财产，这就是执着（Sanga）。“我将做这样的行动，我将得到这样的结果，我将进行这个祭祀，我将在天堂享乐。”这种对行动及其果实的执着就是业果执着（Karma Sanga）。
The ality of Rajas denotes activity and ambition. The Rajasic man is full of cravings and desires. The cravings force him to act for their fulfilment. He gets attached to those who help him in the fulfilment of his desire and hates those who stand in his way. He is attached to action. He enters on great undertakings. He performs various sorts of sacrifices and rituals and charitable activities. He runs after sensual pleasures and his desires become insatiable like a flame fed by oil. The Self is not the doer. It is the silent witness but Rajas creates in the man the idea? I am the doer.Rajas pleases the mind and keeps alive the passions.A Rajasic man is never contented. He is ever greedy and restless. The more he acires? the more passionate and greedy he becomes. Desires multiply. Nothing gives him satisfaction. If he is a millionaire? he tries to become a multimillionaire. It is like petrol poured into the fire? which inflames it further. A Rajasic man loses his understanding and power of discrimination. His understanding is clouded. He is under intoxication of the pride of wealth. His intellect is turbid. He has a perverted intellect. On account of perversion of intellect misery appears to him to be happiness pain appears to him to be pleasure sorrow appears to be joy. His goal is money and women. He worships mammon as his god.He runs after name? fame and comforts and involves himself in endless activities. Quickness has been associated with the fish? with the flash of lightning and with the glance of a woman. But Rajas is icker than these. A Rajasic man is more active than these. He thinks What will happen to me after my possessions are gone and thus worries himself unnecessarily and engages himself in endless activities. He has no peace of mind.He thirsts for what has not been attained and is attached to what has already been obtained. He wishes and tries to protect his possessions. This is Sanga. I will do such and such an action. I will get such and such a result. I will do this sacrifice. I will enjoy in heaven. This sort of clinging to action and its fruits is Karma Sanga.