The characteristics of the quality of Darkness are pride of personal beauty, assertion of supremacy, war, disinclination to give, absence of mercy, enjoyment and enduring of happiness and misery, pleasure in speaking ill of others, habit of quarrelling, pride, discourtesy, anxiety, hostilities, sorrow, appropriation of others' properties, shamelessness, crookedness, disunion, roughness, lust, anger, pride, assertion of superiority, malice and calumny. These originate from the quality of Darkness. I shall now tell you of qualities which originate Ignorance.
रजोगुणानां संघातो रूपमैश्चर्यविग्रहो। अत्यागित्वमकारुण्यं सुखदुःखोपसेवनम्॥ परापवादेषु रतिर्विवादानां च सेवनम्। अहंकारमसत्कारश्चिन्ता वैरोपसेवनम्॥ परितापोऽभिहरणं ह्रीनाशोऽनार्जवं तथा। भेदः परुषता चैव कामः क्रोधो मदस्तथा॥ दर्पो द्वेषोऽतिवादश्च ऐते प्रोक्ता रजोगुणाः। तामसानां तु संघातं प्रवक्ष्याम्युपधार्यताम्॥