Goodness (sattva), passion (rajas), and darkness (tamas), these qualities (guṇāḥ) born of nature (prakṛti), Bind fast in the body, O Great-armed one (Mahābāho), the imperishable embodied one (dehin).
Lucidity, passion, dark inertia— these qualities inherent in nature bind the unchanging embodied self in the body.
(5) Goodness—Passion—Darkness: these are the [three] constituents from Nature sprung that bind the embodied [self] in the body though [the self itself] is changeless.
14.5 O mighty-armed one, the qualities, viz sattva, rajas and tamas, born of Nature, being the immutable embodies being to the body.
14.5 Sattva, Rajas and Tamas are the Guṇas that arise from the Prakṛti. They bind the immutable self in the body, O Arjuna.
14.5 Purity, passion and inertia -- these qualities, O Arjuna, born of Nature, bind fast in the body, the embodied, the indestructible.