Shloka 41
सर्गभेदाः — अविद्या, स्रोतोभेदाः, नव सर्गाः, देवासुरादिसृष्टिः, वेद-यज्ञप्रादुर्भावः
रजोमात्रात्मिकाम् एव ततो ऽन्यां जगृहे तनुम् ततः क्षुद् ब्रह्मणो जाता जज्ञे कोपस् तया ततः
rajomātrātmikām eva tato 'nyāṃ jagṛhe tanum tataḥ kṣud brahmaṇo jātā jajñe kopas tayā tataḥ
随后，梵天又取一具唯由“罗阇斯”（激情与活动之性）构成的身。由此生出“饥饿”，而由饥饿又复生“忿怒”。
Sage Parāśara (narrating to Maitreya)
FAQs
They represent primal drives arising within creation—hunger as craving/need, and wrath as its reactive force—showing how rajas fuels worldly motion and conflict.
Parāśara presents rajas as the activating guṇa: when Brahmā assumes a rajas-dominated form, dynamic forces such as hunger arise, and from them follow further agitating emotions like anger.
Even as Brahmā’s rajas-born forces unfold, the Vishnu Purana frames all cosmic processes as operating within the sovereignty of the Supreme Reality (Vishnu), who underlies and sustains the ordered manifestation of the guṇas.