रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम् | तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम् ||१४-७||
rajo rāgātmakaṃ viddhi tṛṣṇāsaṅgasamudbhavam . tannibadhnāti kaunteya karmasaṅgena dehinam ||14-7||
- rajaḥ
- the mode of passion
- rāga-ātmakam
- born of desire or lust
- viddhi
- know
- tṛṣṇā
- with hankering
- saṅga
- association
- samudbhavam
- produced of
- tat
- that
- nibadhnāti
- binds
- kaunteya
- O son of Kuntī
- karma-saṅgena
- by association with fruitive activity
- dehinam
- the embodied
The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions.