भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च | अहंकार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा
bhūmirāpo.analo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca . ahaṃkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā
我的原质（Prakriti）分为八种：地、水、火、风、空、心意、理智以及我执。
This Prakrti of Mine is divided eight-fold thus: earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, intellect and also egoism.
这八种原质构成了低级原质（Apara Prakriti）。五大元素（地、水、火、风、空）是由细微的根本元素（Tanmatras）通过五重混合（Pancikarana）过程形成的。心意在此代表其因——我执，理智代表其因——大我执，而我执则代表与无明（Avidya）结合的未显现（Avyaktam）原质，其中包含各种潜在倾向（Vasanas）。由于我执是每个个体所有行为的根本原因，并且是人身上最重要的原则，所有其他原则（Tattvas）都依赖于它，因此与我执结合的未显现原质在此被称为我执，就像掺有毒药的食物本身被称为毒药一样。
This eightfold Nature constitutes the inferior Nature or Apara Prakriti. The five gross elements are formed out of the Tanmatras or rootelements through the process of Pancikarana or fivefold mixing. Tanmatras are the subtle rootelements. In this verse? earth? water? etc.? represent the subtle or rudimentary elements out of which the five gross elements are formed.Mind stands here for its cause Ahamkara intellect for its cause the Mahat Ahamkara for the Avyaktam or the unmanifested (MulaPrakriti) united with Avidya which is conjoined with all kinds of Vasanas or latent tendencies. As Ahamkara (Iness) is the cause for all the actions of every individual and as Ahamkara is the most vital principle in man on which all the other Tattvas or principles depend? the Avyaktam combined with the Ahamkara is itself called here Ahamkara? just as food which is mixed with poison is itself called poison.