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Bhagayad-णोंबे As It Is
[Ch. 14]
the highest where Brahmā is situated. Everywhere there are living entities; within the earth there are living entities, even within water and within fire. All these appearances are due to the mother, material nature, and Kṛṣṇa’s seed-giving process. The purport is that the living entities, being impregnated in the material world, come out and form at the time of creation according to their past deeds.
TEXT 5
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः । निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम् ॥ ५ ॥
sattvaṁ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛti-sambhavāḥ nibadhnanti mahā-bāho dehe dehinam avyayam
sattvam —mode of goodness;  rajaḥ —mode of passion;  tamaḥ —mode of ignorance;  iti —thus;  guṇāḥ —qualities;  prakṛti —material nature;  sambhavāḥ —produced of;  nibadhnanti —does condition;  mahā-bāho —O mighty-armed one;  dehe —in this body;  dehinam —the living entity;  av'yayam —eternal.
TRANSLATION
Material nature consists of the three modes—goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.
PURPORT
The living entity, because he is transcendental, has nothing to do with this material nature. Still, because he has become conditioned by the material world, he is acting under the spell of the three modes of material nature. Because living entities have different kinds of bodies, in terms of the different aspects of nature, they are induced to act according to that nature. This is the cause of the varieties of happiness and distress.