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Verse 3·27

The gunas direct all actions of living beings

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Verse

प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः ।अहंकारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥

While the actions are being entirely done by the modes of Nature, he whose self is bewildered by egoism thinks that it is his “I” which is doing them.

Gītā 3·27

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in