Bhagavad Gita 14.7 Meaning: Rajo ragatmakam viddhi

Bhagavad Gita 14.7

रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् ।तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम् ॥

Rajo ragatmakam viddhi trishnasangasamudbhavamTannibadhnati kaunteya karmasangena dehinam

rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam |tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam ||

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Our explanation Rajas, Krishna says, is of the nature of passion (rāga) and springs from craving (tṛṣṇā) and attachment; it binds the embodied self by attachment to action.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि रज राग (आसक्ति) के स्वभाव वाला है और तृष्णा तथा संग से उत्पन्न होता है; वह देही को कर्म की आसक्ति से बाँधता है।

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रजः rajaḥ · rajas (noun (neuter), accusative singular) Dictionary: rajas, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 863, col. 2 “the ‘darkening’ quality, passion, emotion, affection”
रागात्मकम् rāgātmakam · of the nature of passion (compound (neuter), accusative singular) Dictionary: rāga, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 872, col. 1 “any feeling or passion, (esp.) love, affection or sympathy for”; ātmaka, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 136, col. 1 “having or consisting of the nature or character of (in comp.)”
विद्धि viddhi · know (imperative, 2nd person singular) Dictionary: 1. vid, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 963, col. 2 “to know, understand, perceive, learn”
तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam · arising from craving and attachment (compound (neuter), accusative singular) Dictionary: tṛṣṇā, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 454, col. 1 “desire, avidity (chiefly ifc.)”; saṅga, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1132, col. 3 “(esp.) worldly or selfish attachment or affection, desire”; sam-udbhava, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1168, col. 2 “existence, production, origin (ifc. either ‘arisen or produced from’ or ‘being the source of’)”
तत् tat · that (pronoun (neuter), nominative singular) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
निबध्नाति nibadhnāti · binds (present, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: ni-bandh, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 550, col. 1 “to enchain, fetter (lit. and fig.)”
कौन्तेय kaunteya · O son of Kunti (noun (masculine), vocative singular) Dictionary: kaunteya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 316, col. 2 “metron. fr. Kuntī”
कर्मसङ्गेन karmasaṅgena · by attachment to action (compound (masculine), instrumental singular) Dictionary: karman, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 258, col. 2 “act, action, performance, business”; saṅga, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1132, col. 3 “(esp.) worldly or selfish attachment or affection, desire”
देहिनम् dehinam · the embodied self (noun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: dehin, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 497, col. 1 “having a body, corporeal”

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