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Bg. 18.24

yat tu kāmepsunā karma

sāhaṅkāreṇa vā punaḥ

kriyate bahulāyāsaṁ

tad rājasam udāhṛtam
yat-that which; tu-but; kāma-īpsunā-with fruitive result; karma-work; sāhaṅkāreṇa-with ego; -or; punaḥ-again; kriyate-performed; bahula-āyāsam-with great labor; tat-that; rājasam-in the mode of passion; udāhṛtam-is said to be.
But action performed with great effort by one seeking to gratify his desires, and which is enacted from a sense of false ego, is called action in the mode of passion.