Shloka 7
Rajo-guṇa-nirdeśa — Brahmā’s Enumeration of Rajasic Dispositions
परिचर्यानुशुश्रूषा सेवा तृष्णा व्यपाश्रय: । व्यूह़ो नयः प्रमादश्न॒ परिवाद: परिग्रह:
paricaryānuśuśrūṣā sevā tṛṣṇā vyapāśrayaḥ | vyūho nayaḥ pramādaś ca parivādaḥ parigrahaḥ ||
Vāyu said: “Attendance and dutiful listening, service, craving, dependence on others, strategic arrangement, political expediency, negligence, slander, and acquisitiveness—these are the tendencies that bind a person and lead one away from steadiness in dharma.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse lists behaviors and mental tendencies—craving, dependence, negligence, slander, and grasping—that undermine ethical steadiness. It cautions that even socially praised acts like service or political skill can become binding when driven by attachment, ambition, or lack of discernment.
Vāyudeva is speaking and enumerating a set of traits to be recognized and restrained. The tone is admonitory and diagnostic, as part of a broader instruction on right conduct and the inner causes of moral decline.