BG - 13.22

पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान्।कारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु।।13.22।।

puruṣhaḥ prakṛiti-stho hi bhuṅkte prakṛiti-jān guṇān kāraṇaṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sya sad-asad-yoni-janmasu

• puruṣhaḥ - the individual soul
• prakṛiti-sthaḥ - seated in the material energy
• hi - indeed
• bhuṅkte - desires to enjoy
• prakṛiti-jān - produced by the material energy
• guṇān - the three modes of nature
• kāraṇam - the cause
• guṇa-saṅgaḥ - the attachment (to three guṇas)
• asya - of its
• sat-asat-yoni - in superior and inferior wombs
• janmasu - of birth

Translation

The soul seated in Nature experiences the qualities born of Nature; attachment to the qualities is the cause of its birth in good and evil wombs.

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