Rajasic firmness holds to dharma, pleasure, and wealth with attachment and desire for their fruits. All traditions warn that even admirable persistence becomes binding when contaminated by desire. Shankara teaches that attachment converts even righteous action into a cause of bondage. Ramanuja warns that calculating the fruits of spiritual practice prevents surrender. Madhva says rajasic firmness perverts the natural order by making spiritual practice serve material ends. Abhinavagupta sees it as determination contaminated by desire — sustained but selfish effort producing accomplishment without liberation. Vallabha warns that pursuing even dharma with attachment turns devotion into a transaction. The bhakti tradition holds that expectation of reward poisons the purity of spiritual practice. Tilak cautions that rajasic firmness often masquerades as discipline — the karma-yogi must examine the motivation behind perseverance. Vivekananda teaches that it produces worldly success at the cost of spiritual freedom. The verse is subtle: the objects — dharma, artha, kama — are not themselves wrong; it is the attachment and expectation that corrupt.