rajo rāgātmakaḿ viddhi
tṛṣṇā-sańga-samudbhavam
tan nibadhnāti kaunteya
karma-sańgena dehinam

rajaḥ — the mode of passion; rāga-ātmakam — born of desire or lust; viddhi — know; tṛṣṇā — with hankering; sańga — association; samudbhavam — produced of; tat — that; nibadhnāti — binds; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; karma-sańgena — by association with fruitive activity; dehinam — the embodied.

The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions.