स एष यर्हि प्रकृतेर्गुणेष्वभिविषज्जते । अहंक्रियाविमूढात्मा कर्तास्मीत्यभिमन्यते ॥ २ ॥
sa esa yarhi prakrter gunesv abhivisajjate ahankriya-vimudhatma kartasmity abhimanyate
- sah
- that very living entity
- esah
- this
- yarhi
- when
- prakrteh
- of material nature
- gunesu
- in the modes
- abhivisajjate
- is absorbed
- ahankriya
- by false ego
- vimudha
- bewildered
- atma
- the individual soul
- karta
- the doer
- asmi
- I am
- iti
- thus
- abhimanyate
- he thinks.
When the soul is under the spell of material nature and false ego, identifying his body as the self, he becomes absorbed in material activities, and by the influence of false ego he thinks that he is the proprietor of everything.