Austerity that is done for the sake of winning a good name, that one may be praised as 'this is a fine man, an ascetic, a brahmin'; for the sake of honour, of being received with marks of respect, rising to greet one, salutation and the like; for the sake of worship, having one's feet washed, being reverenced and given a place to rest; and austerity done with ostentation, this is called here the austerity of rajas. It is unsteady and uncertain, since its fruit is only occasional.

Honouring with the mind is regard; praise with speech is esteem; salutation and the rest with the body is worship. The austerity that is done, preceded by an aim to fruit and for the sake of regard and the rest, with pretence for its cause, is here called rajasic; it is unsteady and unfixed, since, by being the means to heaven and other fruits, it is unsteady. Unsteadiness is the being a cause of trembling out of fear of falling; unfixedness is the being subject to decay.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.