Verse 13.22

पुरुषः प्रकृतिस्थो हि भुङ्क्ते प्रकृतिजान्गुणान् ।

कारणं गुणसङ्गोऽस्य सदसद्योनिजन्मसु ॥

13.22

Transliteration

puruṣaḥ prakṛtistho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtijānguṇān |

kāraṇaṃ guṇasaṅgo'sya sadasadyonijanmasu ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

The soul seated in Nature experiences the alities born of Nature; attachment to the alities is the cause of its birth in good and evil wombs.

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Word by word

the spirit
seated in nature
indeed
experiences
born of nature
the gunas

the cause
attachment to the gunas
its
of births in good and evil wombs

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

Here Krishna explains how bondage arises. The person, abiding in nature, experiences the qualities that nature produces. By itself this is not a problem, but the person becomes attached to the qualities, identifying with pleasure and pain, and this attachment is the cause of repeated births in higher and lower conditions. The verse locates the root of the round of birth and death (saṃsāra) not in nature itself, nor in the person itself, but in the clinging that joins them. It points directly to the remedy: freedom from attachment to the qualities.