Shloka 16
Rajo-guṇa-nirdeśa — Brahmā’s Enumeration of Rajasic Dispositions
कामतृत्ता: प्रमोदन्ते सर्वकामसमृद्धिभि: । अर्वाक्स्रोतस इत्येते मनुष्या रजसा वृता:
kāmatṛptāḥ pramodante sarvakāmasamṛddhibhiḥ | arvāksrotasa ity ete manuṣyā rajasā vṛtāḥ ||
Sinabi ni Vāyu: “Yaong mga napapawi lamang ng pagnanasa ay nagagalak sa kasaganaan ng lahat ng uri ng pagkalugod. Ang gayong mga tao, nababalot ng rajas, ay tinatawag na ‘arvāksrotas’—ang kanilang agos ay dumadaloy pababa, patungo sa mga bagay at ligayang makamundo.”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
A life driven by kāma (desire) and delighting in the plenty of enjoyments is characterized as rājasic: energetic and restless, but ethically and spiritually downward-leaning. The verse warns that such desire-satiation is not true fulfillment; it marks a consciousness oriented toward external gratification rather than inner clarity and higher aims.
Vāyudeva is describing a category of human disposition. He identifies people who revel in sense-pleasures and worldly abundance as being covered by rajas and labels them ‘arvāksrotas,’ indicating their tendency to flow toward lower, outward pursuits.