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Jaḍa Bharata Instructs King Rahūgaṇa
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bhūyāya kalpate.  One must come to the transcendental platform; otherwise life's mission is never fulfilled.
TEXT 5
स वासनात्मा विषयोपरक्तो 
    गुणप्रवाहो विकृतः षोडशात्मा । 
    बिभ्रत्पृथङ्नामभि रूपभेद- 
    मन्तर्बहिष्टं च पुरैस्तनोति ॥ ५ ॥
sa vāsanātmā viṣayoparakto 
    guṇa-pravāho vikṛtaḥ ṣoḍaśātmā 
    bibhrat pṛthaṅ-nāmabhi rūpa-bhedam 
    antar-bahiṣtvam ca purais tanoti
saḥ —that;  vāsanā —endowed with many desires;  ātmā —the mind;  viṣaya-uparaktaḥ —attached to material happiness, sense gratification;  guṇa-pravāhaḥ —driven by the force of either  sattva-guṇa ,  rajo-guṇa  or  tamo-guṇa ;  vikṛtaḥ —transformed by lust and so on;  ṣoḍaśa-ātmā —the chief of the sixteen material elements (the five gross elements, the ten senses and the mind);  bibhrat —wandering;  pṛthak-nāmabhiḥ —with separate names;  rūpa-bhedam —assuming different forms;  antaḥ-bahiṣtvam —the quality of being first-class or last-class;  ca —and;  puraiḥ —with different bodily forms;  tanoti —manifests.
TRANSLATION
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body.