स वासनात्मा विषयोपरक्तोगुणप्रवाहो विकृत: षोडशात्मा । बिभ्रत्पृथङ्नामभि रूपभेद-मन्तर्बहिष्ट्वं च पुरैस्तनोति ॥ ५ ॥
sa vasanatma visayoparakto guna-pravaho vikrtah sodasatma bibhrat prthan-namabhi rupa-bhedam antar-bahistvam ca purais tanoti
- sah
- that
- vasana
- endowed with many desires
- atma
- the mind
- visaya-uparaktah
- attached to material happiness, sense gratification
- guna-pravahah
- driven by the force of either sattva-guna, rajo-guna or tamo-guna
- vikrtah
- transformed by lust and so on
- sodasa-atma
- the chief of the sixteen material elements (the five gross elements, the ten senses and the mind)
- bibhrat
- wandering
- prthak-namabhih
- with separate names
- rupa-bhedam
- assuming different forms
- antah-bahistvam
- the quality of being first-class or last-class
- ca
- and
- puraih
- with different bodily forms
- tanoti
- manifests
Because the mind is absorbed in desires for pious and impious activities, it is naturally subjected to the transformations of lust and anger. In this way, it becomes attracted to material sense enjoyment. In other words, the mind is conducted by the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. There are eleven senses and five material elements, and out of these sixteen items, the mind is the chief. Therefore the mind brings about birth in different types of bodies among demigods, human beings, animals and birds. When the mind is situated in a higher or lower position, it accepts a higher or lower material body.