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Meeting death in Rajas, he is born among those who are attached to action; and dying in Tamas, he is born in the womb of the senseless.

Meeting death in passion, one is born among those attached to action; dying in inertia, one is born in the wombs of the deluded.

Krishna completes the account of where the qualities lead at death. One who dies while passion (rajas) prevails is reborn among people driven by action and its rewards, a busy human life of striving. One who dies in inertia (tamas) is born in the wombs of the deluded, which many readers take to mean forms of life with little capacity for understanding. The picture is not one of reward and punishment imposed from outside, but of each quality carrying a person to the kind of life that matches it. One becomes what one has habitually been.