Verse
यत्तु कामेप्सुना कर्म साहङ्कारेण वा पुनः ।क्रियते बहुलायासं तद्राजसमुदाहृतम् ॥
yattu kāmepsunā karma sāhaṅkāreṇa vā punaḥkriyate bahulāyāsaṃ tadrājasamudāhṛtam
But that action which a man undertakes under the dominion of desire, or with an egoistic sense of his own personality in the action, and which is done with inordinate effort (with a great heaving and straining of the personal will to get at the object of desire), that is declared to be rajasic.
Gītā 18·24