अभिसन्धाय तु फलं दम्भार्थमपि चैव यत् | इज्यते भरतश्रेष्ठ तं यज्ञं विद्धि राजसम्
abhisandhāya tu phalaṃ dambhārthamapi caiva yat . ijyate bharataśreṣṭha taṃ yajñaṃ viddhi rājasam
然而，婆羅多（Bharata）後裔中最優秀者啊，那種為了追求結果，也為了炫耀而進行的祭祀，你要知道那是屬於激性（拉賈斯，Rajas）的。
But that sacrifice which is performed having in veiw a result, as also for ostentation,-know that sacrifice to be done through rajas, O greatest among the descendants of Bharata.
如果有人為了獲得天堂、子嗣、財富、名聲或榮譽而進行祭祀，那麼這就是激性性質的祭祀。這種祭祀的執行者，其動機是為了提升自己的重要性，在世間廣傳自己的名聲，獲得某些回報，炫耀自己是個偉大、虔誠、有學識的人，或展示自己的財富以求自我榮耀。他沒有追求獲得「阿特曼」（Atman，自性）知識的願望。
If anyone performs a sacrifice in order to obtain? heaven? son? wealth? or name and fame? then it is a sacrifice of a Rajasic nature. The performer of this kind of sacrifice has the motive of increasing his own importance? for popularising his own name in the world? for gaining some reward? for showing himself off as a great? pious and learned man? for making an exhibition of his riches for his own glorificaion. He has no aspiration for attaining the knowledge of the Self.