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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 2, Ch. 5]
by intelligence and the living energy,  prāṇa , are different products and by-products of the second mode of nature, called passion. This mode of passion is, however, the product of the air element, as described before.
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यदैतेऽसङ्गता भाग्ना भूतेन्द्रियमनोगुणाः । यदायतननिर्माणे न शेक्तुर्ब्रह्मवित्तम ॥३२॥
yadaite 'saṅgatā bhāvā bhūtendriya-mano-guṇāḥ yadāyatana-nirmāṇe na śekur brahma-vit-tama
yadā —as long as;  ete —all these;  asaṅgatāḥ —without being assembled;  bhāvāḥ —remained so situated;  bhūta —elements;  indriya —senses;  manaḥ —mind;  guṇāḥ —modes of nature;  yadā —so long;  āyatana —body;  nirmāṇe —in the matter of being formed;  na śekuḥ —was not possible;  brahma-vit-tama —O Nārada, the best knower of transcendental knowledge.
TRANSLATION
O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body could not take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind and the modes of nature, were assembled.
PURPORT
The different types of bodily construction of the living entities are exactly like different types of motor cars manufactured by assembling the allied motor parts. When the car is made ready, the driver sits in the car and moves it as he desires. This is also confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 18.61): the living entity is as if seated on the machine of the body, and the car of the body is moving by the control of material nature, just as the railway trains are moving under the direction of the controller. The living entities are, however, not the bodies; they are separate from the cars of the body. But the less intelligent material scientist cannot