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Srimad Bhagavatam 2.5.19

2.5.19

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

karya-karana-kartrtve dravya-jnana-kriyasrayah badhnanti nityada muktam mayinam purusam gunah

karya
effect
karana
cause
kartrtve
in activities
dravya
material
jnana
knowledge
kriya-asrayah
manifested by such symptoms
badhnanti
conditions
nityada
eternally
muktam
transcendental
mayinam
affected by material energy
purusam
the living entity
gunah
the material modes.

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.