Raga (Sanskrit: राग, IAST: rāga; Pali rāga; Tibetan: 'dod chags) is a Buddhist and Hindu concept of character affliction or poison referring to any form of "greed, sensuality, lust, desire" or "attachment to a sensory object".
In Buddhist texts as a form of blemish, personal impurity or fundamental character affliction.
[7] Raga is one of three poisons and afflictions, also called the "threefold fires" in Buddhist Pali canon,[8] that prevents a being from reaching nirvana.
[9][10] To extinguish all raga (greed, lust, desire, attachment) is one of the requirements of nirvana (liberation) in Buddhism.
[12] The word rāga also appears in a different sense in Yoga Sutra IV.17, with the prefix upa, as upa-rāga, meaning "being colored".