Verses - Modes of nature

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.46

"This gross material body made of five elements is already under the control of eternal time [kāla], action [karma] and the modes of material nature [guṇa]. How then can it, being already in the jaws of the serpent, protect others?" https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/46

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.13.54

"One who has controlled the sitting postures [the yogic āsanas] and the breathing process can turn the senses toward the Absolute Personality of Godhead and thus become immune to the contaminations of the modes of material nature, namely mundane goodness, passion and ignorance." https://vedy.online/en/sb1/13/54

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.9

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one, whether He alone acts with the modes of material nature, or simultaneously expands in many forms, or expands consecutively to direct the modes of nature." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/9

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.12

"Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, for the creation of the material world, accepts the three modes of nature. He is the complete whole residing within the body of everyone, and His ways are inconceivable." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/4/12

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.18-19

"The Supreme Lord is pure, spiritual form, transcendental to all material qualities, yet for the sake of the creation of the material world and its maintenance and annihilation, He accepts through His external energy the material modes of nature called goodness, passion and ignorance." "These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as matter, knowledge and activities, put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/18 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/5/19

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.2

"The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.”" https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/2

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.9.10

"In that personal abode of the Lord, the material modes of ignorance and passion do not prevail, nor is there any of their influence in goodness. There is no predominance of the influence of time, so what to speak of the illusory, external energy; it cannot enter that region. Without discrimination, both the demigods and the demons worship the Lord as devotees." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/9/10

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.31-32

"The seven elements of the body, namely the thin layer on the skin, the skin itself, the flesh, blood, fat, marrow and bone, are all made of earth, water and fire, whereas the life breath is produced by the sky, water and air." "The sense organs are attached to the modes of material nature, and the modes of material nature are products of the false ego. The mind is subjected to all kinds of material experiences (happiness and distress), and the intelligence is the feature of the mind’s deliberation." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/31 & https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/32

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.41

"According to the different modes of material nature — the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of darkness — there are different living creatures, who are known as demigods, human beings and hellish living entities. O King, even a particular mode of nature, being mixed with the other two, is divided into three, and thus each kind of living creature is influenced by the other modes and acquires its habits also." https://vedy.online/en/sb2/10/41

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.5.8

"The Supreme King of all kings has created different planets and places of habitation where living entities are situated in terms of the modes of nature and work, and He has created their different kings and rulers." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/5/8

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.7.4

"By His self-sheltered potency of the three modes of material nature, the Lord has caused the creation of this universe. By her He maintains the creation and conversely dissolves it, again and again." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/7/4

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.10.26

"The creation of the human beings, who are of one species only and who stock their eatables in the belly, is the ninth in the rotation. In the human race, the mode of passion is very prominent. Humans are always busy in the midst of miserable life, but they think themselves happy in all respects." https://vedy.online/en/sb3/10/26