BG - 14.5

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।14.5।।

sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛiti-sambhavāḥ nibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam

• sattvam - mode of goodness
• rajaḥ - mode of passion
• tamaḥ - mode of ignorance
• iti - thus
• guṇāḥ - modes
• prakṛiti - material nature
• sambhavāḥ - consists of
• nibadhnanti - bind
• mahā-bāho - mighty-armed one
• dehe - in the body
• dehinam - the embodied soul
• avyayam - eternal

Translation

These qualities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body of the embodied, the indestructible: purity, passion, and inertia.

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