Rajas and Karman

If we do not take into account Purusa, then in Sänkhya-Yoga System there are three fundamental substances, viz. sattva, rajas and tamas. Accor- ding to this system, citta is constituted of these three substances. But as sattva predominates in it, it is simply called sattva. Rajas and tamas are regarded as veils (avaraņa) covering sattva.

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नगीन शाह सिद्ध करते हैं कि पातञ्जल योग के मूल ग्रन्थों में 'कर्मन्' शब्द रजस् द्रव्य के अर्थ में और 'मल' क्लेश के अर्थ में प्रयुक्त होता है, अतः दोनों भिन्न हैं। वे योगभाष्य के क्लेश-कर्म तथा क्लेश-रजस् युग्म और बौद्ध-जैन समानान्तर उद्धरण जुटाते हैं। Nagin Shah shows that the Patanjala Yoga texts use karman to mean the substance rajas, and mala to mean klesa, so the two are distinct. He gathers the duals klesa-karma and klesa-rajas from the Yogabhasya and parallels from Buddhist and Jaina usage.

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