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All action is performed by the gunas

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रागी कर्मफलप्रेप्सुर् लुब्धो हिंसात्मकोऽशुचिः ।हर्षशोकान्वितः कर्ता राजसः परिकीर्तितः ॥

Eagerly attached to the work, passionately desirous of fruit, greedy, impure, often violent and cruel and brutal in the means he uses, full of joy (in success) and grief (in failure) such a doer is known as rajasic.

Gītā 18·27

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in