Purity, passion, and inertia — these qualities (GUNAS) , O! mighty-armed, born of PRAKRITI bind the Indestructible Embodied one fast in the body.

sattvaṃ = the mode of goodness; rajaḥ = the mode of passion; tamaḥ = the mode of ignorance; iti = thus; guṇāḥ = the qualities; prakṛti = material nature; sambhavāḥ = produced of; nibadhnanti = do condition; mahābāho = O mighty-armed one; dehe = in this body; dehīnaṃ = the living entity; avyayaṃ = eternal.;