| 24. But the action
which is done by one longing for pleasures, or done by the egotistic costing
much trouble, that is declared to be Rajasic. Pleasures: as fruits of action.
The Egotistic: not as distinguished from one who has realized the true nature
of the Self (who is absolutely free from egotism), but as distinguished from
one who is free from pride in the sense in which an ordinary srotriya (a devotee
of the Vedic Religion) of the world is excepted to be free from egotism. For,
he who is absolutely without egotism, i.e one who has realized the Self, cannot
even be imagined to long for the fruit of an action; or to do an action costing
much trouble. Even the doer of a Sattvic action is ignorant of the Self and
is egotistic; much more so are the Rajasic and Tamasic doers. In common parlance,
a srotriya who is ignorant of the Self is said to be free from egotism ; we
say He is a modest (unegotistic) Brahmana. It is only from this class of persons
that the doer of a Rajasic action is distinguished as being egotistic. Tamasic
Action. |
