# Leela Square 71: Activity (rajoguna) Meaning

Square 71 in Leela is Activity, rajoguna in Sanskrit, the guna of rajas, in the top row beyond the chakras. Johari describes it as karma and activity after failing to attain 68. The player has passed the goal and is still moving. Unless this energy is converted into sattva, Johari says, it becomes the cause of suffering.

## Meaning

In Johari's commentary rajoguna is what happens when a player misses Cosmic Consciousness and keeps going. Energy that could have come to rest turns into more activity and more karma. Action itself is not the problem; the board is full of virtuous actions. The problem is momentum without direction, action driven by the need to act. Most people know this moment: a target is missed, and instead of pausing they reach at once for the next task.

Rajas is the second of the three gunas: motion, passion, desire and drive. It is the force that gets things done and the force that cannot sit still. Between sattva at 70, clarity, and tamas at 72, inertia, rajas sits in the middle of the last three squares, just as in life restlessness often swings between brightness and collapse.

Johari's remedy is conversion. The same energy, refined, becomes sattva: action that is calm, offered and free of craving. Left as it is, rajoguna is the root of suffering, because it ties every act to a result that must be chased. Square 71 asks the player to notice the rush. It sits one square from the snake at 72, a reminder that hurried action, unexamined, leads straight back down. Sometimes the most precise act here is an honest pause.

## On the board

No arrow or snake leads to square 71. A player arrives only after overshooting 68, by count from 65, 66, 67, 69 or 70. It is a plain square with no arrow and no snake. From here only a one can be used: it moves the symbol to 72, whose snake returns it to 51, Earth. Any other throw would pass 72 and is lost.

Square 71 is linked to Gita 14.7: rajas is passion born of craving and attachment, and it binds through attachment to action. Arjuna's vow to slay Jayadratha before sunset, made in grief and anger, shows action driven by urgency rather than clarity.

## Questions

- What am I rushing towards?
- If I stopped for one day, what would I be afraid of missing?
- Which of my actions could become calmer without becoming smaller?

**What happens when you land on square 71 in Leela?**
Square 71, Activity, is a plain square past the goal. Only a throw of one can be used here: it moves you to 72, Inertia, whose snake takes you down to 51, Earth. Every other number would carry you beyond the last square and is lost, so you may wait several turns.

**What does rajoguna mean in Leela?**
Rajoguna is the guna of rajas, the quality of movement, passion and drive. In Leela it is square 71, Activity. Johari describes it as karma and activity after failing to reach 68, and as the cause of suffering if it is not converted into sattva, the calm and clear quality of square 70.

**Can you go back to square 68 from 71 in Leela?**
Not directly. Once past 68, movement goes only forward through the top row. From 71 a one takes you to 72, and its snake drops you to 51, Earth. From Earth you climb again; a throw of three reaches 54, Spiritual devotion, whose arrow leads straight to 68.