Shloka 9

तमोगुण-निरूपण

Analysis of Tamas and its Marks

Devanagari script

प्रकृत्यात्मकमेवाहू रज: पर्यायकारकम्‌ । प्रवृत्तं सर्वभूतेषु दृश्यमुत्पत्तिलक्षणम्‌,रजोगुणको प्रकृतिरूप बतलाया गया है, यह सृष्टिकी उत्पत्तिका कारण है। सम्पूर्ण भूतोंमें इसकी प्रवृत्ति देखी जाती है। यह दृश्य जगत्‌ उसीका स्वरूप है, उत्पत्ति या प्रवृत्ति ही उसका लक्षण है

Transliteration

prakṛtyātmakam evāhu rajaḥ paryāyakārakam | pravṛttaṃ sarvabhūteṣu dṛśyam utpattilakṣaṇam ||

Translation

ヴァーユは語った。「ラジャスはプラクリティ（Prakṛti）そのものの性であると宣言され、変化の原理として働く。それはあらゆる存在のうちに作用し、至るところに見いだされる。顕現した世界はその印を帯びる—その決定的な徴は、生起と絶え間ない活動である。」

Word by Word

प्रकृत्यात्मकम्having the nature of Prakṛti

एवindeed/only

आहुःthey say/call

रजःrajas (the rajas-guṇa)

पर्यायकारकम्causing activity/turning (as a cause of change)

प्रवृत्तम्active/operating

सर्वभूतेषुin all beings

दृश्यम्visible/that which is seen

उत्पत्तिलक्षणम्having origination as its mark/characteristic

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

Prakṛti

Rajas

Sarvabhūta (all beings)

Dṛśya (the manifest/visible world)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Rajas is identified as a Prakṛti-based force whose hallmark is motion, transformation, and origination; it is the dynamic principle through which the manifest world and activity in beings become evident.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva is instructing the listener in a doctrinal explanation of the guṇas, specifically defining rajas as the active, transformative power present in all beings and recognizable in the visible world’s constant arising and change.