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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The quality of passion, associated with activity, desire, acquisition and creation.
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Paper 1
The quality of activity, passion, desire and restlessness.
Revise: Matter and CosmologyRajas is activity, passion and desire. It encourages effort and ambition, but can also produce restlessness and attachment to achievement or possessions. Working hard chiefly to gain praise illustrates how activity can become driven by desire.
Paper 1, Paper 3
The quality of passion, associated with desire, attachment and greed.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in HinduismRajas, passion, involves desire and attachment, which can develop into greed.
Link each guna to its effects, rather than only naming it: sattva to knowledge and harmony, rajas to desire and activity, and tamas to ignorance and destruction.
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