चेत: खल्वस्य बन्धाय मुक्तये चात्मनो मतम् । गुणेषु सक्तं बन्धाय रतं वा पुंसि मुक्तये ॥ १५ ॥
cetah khalv asya bandhaya muktaye catmano matam gunesu saktam bandhaya ratam va pumsi muktaye
- cetah
- consciousness
- khalu
- indeed
- asya
- of him
- bandhaya
- for bondage
- muktaye
- for liberation
- ca
- and
- atmanah
- of the living entity
- matam
- is considered
- gunesu
- in the three modes of nature
- saktam
- attracted
- bandhaya
- for conditional life
- ratam
- attached
- va
- or
- pumsi
- in the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- muktaye
- for liberation.
The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by the three modes of material nature is called conditional life. But when that same consciousness is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one is situated in the consciousness of liberation.