Lord Krishna asserts that actions that are pompous and ostentatious or possessed of egoism and conceit or enacted expressly with the desire and purpose of coveting rewards or that is executed with great effort and difficulty are declared to be situated in raja guna the mode of passion.

Continuing Lord Krishna affirms that actions done to acquire rewards and which are escorted with conceit and attended by ahankarena or egoism, thinking that one is the actual doer and desirous of everyone to know and which is accomplished only after great endeavour and expenditure of effort is of the nature of raja guna the mode of passion.

Lord Krishna explains that actions that involve excessive effort and cause stress and strain from the conception to the completion. Actions that are executed with the expectation of enjoyment and rewards. Actions that are motivated by vanity, conceit and egoism as well as desire for recognition. Such actions are known to be situated in raja guna the mode of passion.