Rajogun causes the soul to be attached to the five senses of various kinds, and it is filled with, and arises from, desire. It binds the soul to the world by engaging it in various kinds of work and activities. Karma Karma Action. Deed. Any thought, word, or deed that will sooner or later reap its consequences. Karmas of a person are linked to their rewards (cause and effect). Bhagvãn is the giver of the rewards of the karmas; good deeds reap pleasant rewards, and bad deeds reap painful fruits. Karmas remain with a jeev until it has received its rewards. Tap to open in glossary → Tamogun arises from ignorance. It creates delusion in all living beings. It binds the soul with the bonds of negligence, laziness, and sleep, etc. It binds with negligence and laziness. By creating negligence, negligence feels very good and tickles. If we are lying down, it feels good, it's fine. Even if we stretch it for an hour. Even if we do nothing, it feels good, even if we just wander around. So, by creating negligence and laziness, Tamogun binds. That is very difficult. To get rid of laziness from me, everything being equal, the body being fine, the intellect being fine, God having given all the instruments fine, and yet if we do not produce, that is called negligence and laziness. If all the machines run, then production should come out, if the machine is fine. And not to produce. Just to keep them as they are. If it is a good machine or a good car, if a Mercedes car is bought, should we just keep wiping it? Just keep wiping it. No mud should stick to the wheel. Even in the wheel, in the body it's fine. But if no mud should stick to the wheel either, then? That is called laziness and negligence. God has given all the power, the inner self is capable of thinking, the body is capable of working, capable of producing more of everything, and the production is zero. That is called laziness and negligence. In negligence, it is minus, minus production. What is to be done, he does not do, what is not to be done, he does, so he goes into minus. Laziness means zero production. If we have no production at all, no fruit at all, then that, that is called Tamogun, even if he is not asleep. Even if he is not asleep, so in the Gita, God has put, 'mā saṅgo'stvakarmaṇi'. Do not get stuck in Tamogun. If we do nothing, eat, drink, and live, that is called Tamogun. There is a principle of eating, drinking, and living. Just as people have principles, some are dedicated to truth, Gandhiji was dedicated to truth. And this Narendra Modi is dedicated to India, similarly, many lives are dedicated to eating, drinking, and living. Where the arrangement for three meals is made, make it. And make the arrangement for toilet twice, that's it. To eat, drink, and live. Some production should happen. No achievement in life at all, and wandering a lot, effort a lot, no achievement at all, no production at all. Wandering more than others, making more effort, doing more hard work, but the result should come, it should be result-oriented. As long as it is not result-oriented, it is wasted in negligence. 'How much hard work I do,' we say, 'look at my hard work.' But we do not have the habit of looking at hard work, we look at, what is your production? What result did you bring? Did you bring minus or did you bring plus? 'We do a lot of hard work.' 'We do a lot of hard work.' So is there importance in doing hard work? The importance of doing hard work is not there, they are said to be better than those who do not do it. But there is no importance in doing hard work, by doing hard work, how much success it achieves, that much. For a householder, destiny might interfere. If someone says, someone is trying to become a billionaire, then his destiny might not let him become one, but for sadhus, there is nothing like that, is there? So they have only one thing, they are dedicated to negligence and dedicated to laziness, those two. So if we tell him that you are Tamasic, then he feels so bad about it. But you do not get any result, so it means the same. You do not get any result, you are as you are, you remain in one state, that is called 'ekreni', isn't it? Nothing changes at all. If nothing changes in the whole life, then it is called 'ekreni'. And to remain in 'ekreni', Gunatitanand Swami has called it rare. Tamogun arises from ignorance. It creates delusion in all living beings. It binds the soul in the world with the bonds of negligence, laziness, and sleep, etc. It creates delusion. Delusion of comfort zone. What does delusion mean? If one wants to leave one and go to another, he does not go. If one wants to leave one degree and go to another degree, up, then he does not go, 'this is fine.' What happened is that the comfort zone is set, so no one comes out of it. 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