Chapter 18 verse 24
“Action that is prompted by selfish desire, enacted with pride, and full of stress, is in the nature of passion.”
A
lot of us in the corporate and business world as well as several other walks of
life are driven by mode of passion or rajas. What are some of the traits
exhibited in rajas? Constant worry for particular results of action, stress
about outcome, pride in doer ship of action, selfish expectation of recognition
of the work done and acknowledgement of help rendered. We want people to notice
our presence in everything and “ego” takes a hurt if they don’t. We bring our
ego to the center of the activity. A spiritual guide of mine used to chide me
for this mode of mine and asked if everything I do is a project with a
particular result to be obtained. It was a rude awakening then but I often
catch myself getting into this mode. It is with divine grace and our own effort
that we can get out completely from this mode and do activities with mode of
purity.
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