When rajas increases, O best of the Bharatas, greed, outward activity, undertaking of actions, restlessness, and longing arise.

The signs of prevailing rajas: lobha (greed, the hunger for more), pravṛtti (outward orientation, engagement with the world), ārambha (the constant initiating of new projects), aśama (restlessness, inability to be still), and spṛhā (longing, the perpetual reaching toward what is not yet possessed). The rājasic state is recognisable by its feverish quality — a compulsion to act, acquire, achieve, and accumulate that cannot find rest even in attainment. The moment one desire is satisfied, another rises to take its place.