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rāga

  • attachment
  • passion
  • of the nature of passion
  • attachment and aversion

Also appears as rāga-ātmakam, rāga-dveṣhau

In 8 verses

Chapter 1 7 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 2.56

    दुःखेष्वनुद्विग्नमनाः सुखेषु विगतस्पृहः

    rāga — attachment

    Unshaken in sorrow, without craving in pleasure, free of attachment, fear and anger — such a one is called a sage, steady in wisdom.

  2. 2.64

    रागद्वेषवियुक्तैस्तु विषयानिन्द्रियैश्चरन्

    rāga — attachment

    But one who moves among the objects of sense with the senses freed from craving and aversion, self-governed, comes to peace.

  3. 3.34

    इन्द्रियस्येन्द्रियस्यार्थे रागद्वेषौ व्यवस्थितौ

    rāga — attachment

    Attraction and aversion sit in the senses toward their objects. Do not come under their power; they are the obstacle.

  4. 4.10

    वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया मामुपाश्रिताः

    rāga — attachment

    Free of attachment, fear and anger, filled with me and taking refuge in me, many have been purified by the fire of knowledge and have reached my own state.

  5. 7.11

    बलं बलवतां चाहं कामरागविवर्जितम्

    rāga — passion

    I am the strength of the strong, free of desire and craving. I am the desire in beings that does not go against what is right.

  6. 14.7

    रजो रागात्मकं विद्धि तृष्णासङ्गसमुद्भवम्

    rāga-ātmakam — of the nature of passion

    Know restlessness to be of the nature of craving, arising from thirst and attachment. It binds the embodied one by attachment to action.

  7. 17.5

    अशास्त्रविहितं घोरं तप्यन्ते ये तपो जनाः

    rāga — attachment

    Those who practise severe austerity not enjoined by the scriptures, out of pretence and self-regard, driven by desire and attachment and force,

  8. 18.51

    बुद्ध्या विशुद्धया युक्तो धृत्याऽऽत्मानं नियम्य च

    rāga-dveṣhau — attachment and aversion

    Joined to a purified understanding, holding the self in check by steadiness, having given up sound and the other objects of sense, having put aside craving and aversion;