When rajas takes the wheel, the symptoms are unmistakable. Greed flares up. The drive to do, do, do intensifies. New projects get started before old ones finish. Inner restlessness makes sitting still feel impossible. And behind it all, a persistent longing: "more, more, more."
Think of a market on a festival day. Noise everywhere, people rushing in every direction, vendors calling out, bargains being struck. Exciting, energetic, but exhausting. That frenzy is what rajas feels like from the inside. The person caught in it is immensely active, but contentment remains always one step out of reach.
Rajas-dominant people accomplish a great deal. They build businesses, run households, drive progress. The cost, however, is inner peace. The engine never stops, and the driver never rests.