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Rajas

The quality of passion, energy and restless activity in nature and the mind.

Yoga, Sāṃkhya, Tantra and devotion

Rajas is the active quality of nature, the source of motion, desire and striving. In the mind it shows itself as restlessness, craving and ambition. The Bhagavad Gītā names desire and anger, born of rajas, as the enemy of the seeker.