Rajas in the Bhagavad Gita

Verses across the Gita that speak to rajas, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.

• 3.36Compulsion has a cause, and Arjuna wants to name it.
• 3.37Desire is not harmless; it mutates into the force that ruins judgment.
• 3.38Clear seeing is not destroyed; it is simply covered.
• 6.27Joy comes when the restless mind finally becomes still.
• 14.7Craving turns action into a chain.
• 14.9Each force traps you in a different way: comfort, activity, or blindness.
• 14.10What dominates the mind is temporary, not who you are.
• 14.12Restless wanting multiplies action, but never settles the mind.
• 14.15Your strongest tendency decides the shape of your next beginning.
• 14.16Action carries its own flavor of result.
• 14.17Your mental weather has causes: clarity, craving, and confusion each grow from different qualities.
• 14.18Your inner quality decides the direction of your life.
• 17.2Faith takes the shape of the nature beneath it.
• 17.4Faith reveals itself in what each person chooses to revere.
• 17.7Even sacred actions differ; their inner quality decides their worth.
• 17.21A gift becomes lesser the moment it starts asking for something back.
• 18.8Fearful withdrawal is not freedom; it is avoidance wearing a noble name.
• 18.21Dividing everything into parts is not clarity; it is restless seeing.
• 18.24Desire and ego turn action restless, even when it looks productive.
• 18.27Craving turns action into a chase for reward and emotional swing.
• 18.34Steadiness becomes restless when it is tied to reward.