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ties^[1] of nature only. The self, deluded by egoism^[2], thinketh: "I am the doer." (27)

 

तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः । गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते ॥ २८ ॥

But he, O mighty-armed, who knoweth the essence of the divisions of the qualities and functions, holding that "the qualities move amid the qualities,"^[3] is not attached. (28)

 

प्रकृतेर्गुणसम्मूढाः सज्जन्ते गुणकर्मसु । तानकृत्स्नविदो मन्दान्कृत्स्नविन्न विचालयेत् ॥ २९ ॥

Those deluded by the qualities of nature are attached to the functions of the qualities. The man of perfect knowledge should not unsettle the foolish whose knowledge is imperfect. (29)

 

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1. Gunas.
2. Ahamkâra, the separate "I am."
3. The Gunas, qualities, as sense-organs move amid the Gunas, qualities, as sense-objects. A suggested reading is "The functions dwell in the propensities." Sankarâchârya says, "of the class of qualities and the class of actions;" or the arrangement, or relations of qualities and actions.