प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः ।
अहंकारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥
तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः ।
गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते ॥
Transliteration
prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah
ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate
tattva-vit tu maha-baho guna-karma-vibhagayoh
guna gunesu vartanta iti matva na sajjate
Translation
All types of actions are made to happen due to the modes of nature. But one who has the ego says I am the doer. The modes of nature act in a being. Only those modes makes a person to take action. By knowing this, wise person, by realizing it an interplay of modes, does not get attached with them and does not have false pride of being doer.
Purport
In these two Shlokas, Bhagvan Shri Krishna explains one of the finest secrets of material beings and the karma. Bhagvan explains that all the activities by a human or other living beings are done by the rules of the material universe made by Ishwara and the interchange of three Gunas.
We should understand (this has also been explained separately) that this physical body is nothing but a small abstraction of this physical world. All senses, mind and inner senses are part of this body and hence the material nature. The activities like eating, sleeping, exertion, etc are nothing but a complex collection of biological and chemical changes which in gross terms known as the changes of Gunas. This can further be extended to include all the tasks done by mind inside the same domain of material change.
If a person tries to own such a task is nothing but ignorance and arrogance. A true Jnani knows this secret of physical body and karma. He knows that finally all actions are done by the divine rules made by Ishwara and done have the ego of being the doer. He involves in all action but remains unattached.
