यया सम्मोहितो जीव आत्मानं त्रिगुणात्मकम् । परोऽपि मनुतेऽनर्थं तत्कृतं चाभिपद्यते ॥ ५ ॥
yaya sammohito jiva atmanam tri-gunatmakam paro ’pi manute ’nartham tat-krtam cabhipadyate
- yaya
- by whom
- sammohitah
- illusioned
- jivah
- the living entities
- atmanam
- self
- tri-guna-atmakam
- conditioned by the three modes of nature, or a product of matter
- parah
- transcendental
- api
- in spite of
- manute
- takes it for granted
- anartham
- things not wanted
- tat
- by that
- krtam ca
- reaction
- abhipadyate
- undergoes thereof.
Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries.