अष्टौ प्रकृतय: प्रोक्तास्त्रय एव हि तद्गुणा: । विकारा: षोडशाचार्यै: पुमानेक: समन्वयात् ॥ २२ ॥
astau prakrtayah proktas traya eva hi tad-gunah vikarah sodasacaryaih puman ekah samanvayat
- astau
- eight
- prakrtayah
- material energies
- proktah
- it is said
- trayah
- three
- eva
- certainly
- hi
- indeed
- tat-gunah
- the modes of material energy
- vikarah
- transformations
- sodasa
- sixteen
- acaryaih
- by the authorities
- puman
- the living entity
- ekah
- one
- samanvayat
- from conjunction.
The Lord’s eight separated material energies, the three modes of material nature and the sixteen transformations (the eleven senses and the five gross material elements like earth and water)—within all these, the one spiritual soul exists as the observer. Therefore all the great acaryas have concluded that the individual soul is conditioned by these material elements.