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yattu kāmepsunā karma sāhaṃkāreṇa vā punaḥ . kriyate bahulāyāsaṃ tadrājasamudāhṛtam
然而，那种由渴望结果或自负之人所为，且需付出巨大努力的行动，被宣称为源自激性（Rajas）。
But that action is said to be born of rajas which is done by one desirous of results or by one who is egotistic, and which is highly strenuous.
一个激情之人会进行各种自私的行动。他会在公众面前夸耀自己的行动。激情促使他去做这些事。他总是期望回报。渴望（Kamepsuna）、渴望果实（phalepsuna）：激性或激情之人期望以愉悦作为行动的果实。唯有解脱的圣者才完全没有自我。他甚至不会梦想行动的回报，因为当他证悟梵（Brahman）时，他所有的欲望都已满足。他是一个“已满足欲望者”（Aptakama）。（“已满足欲望者何所求？”）在一个所有欲望都已满足或被自我知识之火焚尽的圣者心中，怎会有渴望或贪求呢？即使是纯粹行动的执行者，如果他没有自我知识，也是自负的。如果是这样，那么激性（Rajasic）和暗性（Tamasic）的行动者就更加自负了。在世俗言谈中，我们谈论一位博学的“班智达”（Pundit）。这位“班智达”是一位非常谦逊、不张扬、无我的婆罗门。阿周那啊，现在请听吾阐述属于暗性（darkness）的行动特征。
A passionate man performs various selfish actions. He boasts of his actions in public. Passion prompts him to do them. He can never work without expectation of a reward.Kamepsuna? phalepsuna The Rajasic or passionate man expects pleasures as fruits of action. A liberated sage alone is absolutely free from egoism. He will not dream even of a reward for the action? because all his desires are gratified when he realises Brahman. He is an Aptakama. (Aptakamasya ka spriha) How can there be longing or craving in a sage in whom all desires are gratified or burnt by the fire of SelfknowledgeEven the performer of a pure act? who has no knowledge of the Self is egoistic. If such be the case? the Rajasic and Tamasic workers are much more egoistic. In worldly parlance we speak of a learned Pundit This Pundit is a very modest? unassuming? and egoless Brahmana.Now listen? O Arjuna? to the characteristics of action that is of darkness.