ये चैव सात्त्विका भावा राजसास्तामसाश्च ये | मत्त एवेति तान्विद्धि न त्वहं तेषु ते मयि
ye caiva sāttvikā bhāvā rājasāstāmasāśca ye . matta eveti tānviddhi na tvahaṃ teṣu te mayi
凡是薩埵（Sattva）性、羅闍（Rajas）性、答磨（Tamas）性所生的一切存在，你當知它們皆由我而生。然而，我不在它們之中，它們卻在我之中！
Those things that indeed are made of (the ality of ) sattva, and those things that are made of (the ality of) rajas and tamas, know them to have sprung from Me alone. However, I am not in them; they are in Me!
此世界由三種「古納」（Guna，即「德性」）構成：薩埵（Sattva，純善）、羅闍（Rajas，激動）與答磨（Tamas，愚昧）。一切有情與無情之物，皆是這三種自然德性的聚合體，其中一種德性佔主導地位，賦予該物獨特的性質。儘管這些眾生與事物皆源於我，但我並不在它們之中，它們卻在我之中。我獨立自主，是它們的依託，它們依賴於我，如同被疊加的蛇依賴於繩索，蛇在繩索中，但繩索從不在蛇中；波浪屬於海洋，但海洋不屬於波浪。
This is a world of the three Gunas? viz.? Sattva (purity)? Rajas (passion) and Tamas (inertia). All sentient and insentient objects are the aggregate of these three alities of Nature. One ality predominates in them and the predominant ality imparts to the object its distinctive character or definite properties.In the gods? sages milk and green gram? Sattva is predominant. In Gandharvas (a class of celestials)? kings? warriors and chillies? Rajas is predominant. In demons? Sudras? garlic? onion and meat? Tamas is predominant.Though these beings and objects proceed from Me? I am not in them they are in Me. I am independent. I am the support for them they depend on Me just as the superimposed snake depends on the rope. The snake is in the rope? but the rope is never in the snake. The waves belong to the ocean but the ocean does not belong to the waves. (Cf.IX.4and6)