Chapter 14 · Verse 7 · Gunatraya Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 14.7
Sanskrit
रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्।तन्निबध्नाति कौन्तेय कर्मसङ्गेन देहिनम्।।14.7।।
Transliteration
rajo rāgātmakaṁ viddhi tṛiṣhṇā-saṅga-samudbhavam tan nibadhnāti kaunteya karma-saṅgena dehinam
In plain words
You're exhausted because you're chasing something that keeps moving — a result, a person, a status, a feeling of 'finally being enough.' Krishna says: that grasping itself is the trap. The moment you mistake your desperate need for an outcome as noble ambition, you've handed your freedom over to something outside yourself. The way out isn't to stop acting or stop caring — it's to act without strangling the result, to want without clinging to getting it.
Word by Word
Lord Krishna reveals here the nature of rajas—the passionate mode that masquerades as energy and desire but actually binds the soul through endless craving. When we mistake ambition for purpose, when we confuse attachment to results with genuine engagement, we become enslaved to our own reactive nature.
The antidote is not to suppress desire but to redirect it toward truth, service, and liberation itself—this is how the householder rises above rajas without renouncing the world.
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Bhagavad Gita 14.7 — BG 14.7
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