श्रीभगवानुवाच गुणानामसम्मिश्राणां पुमान् येन यथा भवेत् । तन्मे पुरुषवर्येदमुपधारय शंसत: ॥ १ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca guṇānām asammiśrāṇāṁ pumān yena yathā bhavet tan me puruṣa-varyedam upadhāraya śaṁsataḥ
- śrī-bhagavān uvāca
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead said
- guṇānām
- of the modes of nature
- asammiśrāṇām
- in their unmixed state
- pumān
- a person
- yena
- by which mode
- yathā
- how
- bhavet
- he becomes
- tat
- that
- me
- by Me
- puruṣa-varya
- O best among men
- idam
- this
- upadhāraya
- please try to understand
- śaṁsataḥ
- as I speak
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O best among men, please listen as I describe to you how the living entity attains a particular nature by association with individual material modes.