Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Verse 5
भगवद् गीता अध्याय 14 श्लोक 5

सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणाः प्रकृतिसंभवाः।
निबध्नन्ति महाबाहो देहे देहिनमव्ययम्।।14.5।।



English Translation - Swami Gambirananda
14.5 O mighty-armed one, the alities, viz sattva, rajas and tamas, born of Nature, being the immutable embodies being to the body.


English Translation - Swami Sivananda
14.5 Purity, passion and inertia  these alities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, the embodied, the indestructible.


English Translation - Dr. S. Sankaranarayan
14.5. The Strands, viz. the Sattva, the Rajas and the Tamas, born from the Prime Cause (the said Mother), bind the changeless Embodied (Soul) to the body, O mighty-armed One !


Transliteration Bhagavad Gita 14.5Sattwam rajastama iti gunaah prakriti sambhavaah;
Nibadhnanti mahaabaaho dehe dehinam avyayam.


Word Meanings Bhagavad Gita 14.5sattvam—mode of goodness; rajaḥ—mode of passion; tamaḥ—mode of ignorance; iti—thus; guṇāḥ—modes; prakṛiti—material nature; sambhavāḥ—consists of; nibadhnanti—bind; mahā-bāho—mighty-armed one; dehe—in the body; dehinam—the embodied soul; avyayam—eternal