Verse
लोभः प्रवृत्तिरारम्भः कर्मणामशमः स्पृहा ।रजस्येतानि जायन्ते विवृद्धे भरतर्षभ ॥
lobhaḥ pravṛttirārambhaḥ karmaṇāmaśamaḥ spṛhārajasyetāni jāyante vivṛddhe bharatarṣabha
Greed, seeking impulsions, initiative of actions, unrest, desire – all this mounts in us when rajas increases.
Gītā 14·12It is therefore full of unrest and fever and lust and greed and excitement, a thing of seeking impulsions, and all this mounts in us when the middle guna increases. It is the force of desire which motives all ordinary personal initiative of action and all that movement of stir and seeking and propulsion in our nature which is the impetus towards action and works, pravṛttiḥ. Rajas, then, is evidently the kinetic force in the modes of Nature.
