Bhagavad Gita 14.15
रजसि प्रलयं गत्वा कर्मसङ्गिषु जायते । तथा प्रलीनस्तमसि मूढयोनिषु जायते ॥ १५ ॥
rajasi pralayaṁ gatvā karma-saṅgiṣu jāyate | tathā pralīnas tamasi mūḍha-yoniṣu jāyate ||15||
Translation
Going to dissolution in rajas, he is born among those attached to action; dissolved in tamas, he is born in the wombs of the deluded.
Reflection
What dominant guna do you suspect is currently shaping where life will deposit you next?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Fourteen
The corollary to the previous verse. A rajasic death continues the rajasic story: rebirth among action-attached lives, busy, productive, restless, more of the same. A tamasic death drops the dehin into mudha-yonis, wombs of beings whose chief feature is bewilderment, animal forms or human forms heavily clouded. The verses 14-15 together form a small instruction: the dominant guna at the close of life is consequential. Pay attention to the weather at the end. This is not fear-mongering; it is plain mechanics. What was being cultivated all along becomes the next address.