🪷 ŚB 2.5.19

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

कार्यकारणकर्तृत्वे द्रव्यज्ञानक्रियाश्रया: । बध्नन्ति नित्यदा मुक्तं मायिनं पुरुषं गुणा: ॥ १९ ॥

Transliteration

kārya-kāraṇa-kartṛtve dravya-jñāna-kriyāśrayāḥ badhnanti nityadā muktaṁ māyinaṁ puruṣaṁ guṇāḥ
Synonyms
kārya — effect; kāraṇa — cause; kartṛtve — in activities; dravya — material; jñāna — knowledge; kriyā-āśrayāḥ — manifested by such symptoms; badhnanti — conditions; nityadā — eternally; muktam — transcendental; māyinam — affected by material energy; puruṣam — the living entity; guṇāḥ — the material modes.

Translation

These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities.

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