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Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 18 Text 24
yat tu kamepsuna karma
sahankarena va punah
kriyate bahulayasam
tad rajasam udahrtam

yat--that which; tu--but; kama-ipsuna--by one with desires for fruitive results; karma--work; sa-ahankarena--with ego; va--or; punah--again; kriyate--is performed; bahula-ayasam--with great labor; tat--that; rajasam--in the mode of passion; udahrtam--is said to be.

TRANSLATION

But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in the mode of passion.