सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति प्रकृतेर्गुणास्तै- र्युक्त: पर: पुरुष एक इहास्य धत्ते । स्थित्यादये हरिविरिञ्चिहरेति संज्ञा: श्रेयांसि तत्र खलु सत्त्वतनोर्नृणां स्यु: ॥ २३ ॥
sattvam rajas tama iti prakrter gunas tair yuktah parah purusa eka ihasya dhatte sthity-adaye hari-virinci-hareti samjnah sreyamsi tatra khalu sattva-tanor nrnam syuh
- sattvam
- goodness
- rajah
- passion
- tamah
- the darkness of ignorance
- iti
- thus
- prakrteh
- of the material nature
- gunah
- qualities
- taih
- by them
- yuktah
- associated with
- parah
- transcendental
- purusah
- the personality
- ekah
- one
- iha asya
- of this material world
- dhatte
- accepts
- sthiti-adaye
- for the matter of creation, maintenance and destruction, etc.
- hari
- Visnu, the Personality of Godhead
- virinci
- Brahma
- hara
- Lord Siva
- iti
- thus
- samjnah
- different features
- sreyamsi
- ultimate benefit
- tatra
- therein
- khalu
- of course
- sattva
- goodness
- tanoh
- form
- nrnam
- of the human being
- syuh
- derived
The transcendental Personality of Godhead is indirectly associated with the three modes of material nature, namely passion, goodness and ignorance, and just for the material world’s creation, maintenance and destruction He accepts the three qualitative forms of Brahma, Visnu and Siva. Of these three, all human beings can derive ultimate benefit from Visnu, the form of the quality of goodness.