तेजोऽबन्नमयैर्भावैर्मेघाद्यैर्वायुनेरितै: । न स्पृश्यते नभस्तद्वत् कालसृष्टैर्गुणै: पुमान् ॥ ४३ ॥
tejo-’b-anna-mayair bhāvair meghādyair vāyuneritaiḥ na spṛśyate nabhas tadvat kāla-sṛṣṭair guṇaiḥ pumān
- tejaḥ
- fire
- ap
- water
- anna
- and earth
- mayaiḥ
- consisting of
- bhāvaiḥ
- by objects
- megha-ādyaiḥ
- clouds and so on
- vāyunā
- by the wind
- īritaiḥ
- which are blown
- na spṛśyate
- is not touched
- nabhaḥ
- the ethereal sky
- tat-vat
- in the same way
- kāla-sṛṣṭaiḥ
- which have been sent forth by time
- guṇaiḥ
- by the modes of nature
- pumān
- a person
Although the mighty wind blows clouds and storms across the sky, the sky is never implicated or affected by these activities. Similarly, the spirit soul is not actually changed or affected by contact with the material nature. Although the living entity enters within a body made of earth, water and fire, and although he is impelled by the three modes of nature created by eternal time, his eternal spiritual nature is never actually affected.