INTRODUCTION
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We act like a wind-up toy when we are steeped in rajas, and like a battery- operated toy with a dead battery when we are in tamas.
Kṛṣṇa uses powerful words to drive home how desperate that state is: ignorance, madness, illusion, inertia and darkness. It is surprising how quickly one can slip from rajas to tamas. To slip from restless activity into inactivity and inertia is simple.
Activity without meaning, activity with tension and stress and activity totally focused on sensual satisfaction quickly leads to deep fatigue. The activity without any meaning that we find in tamas is not the same as activity without a purpose and goal that we experience in satva. Please do not confuse the two.
