Rajas
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This article is about a psychological, philosophical concept in Indian religions. For other similar words, see Raja (disambiguation).
Rajas (Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy.[1][2] The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that drives motion, energy and activity.[3][4]
Rajas is sometimes translated as passion, where it is used in the sense of activity, without any particular value and it can contextually be either good or bad.[1][2] Rajas helps actualize the other two guṇa.[5][6]