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Prabhupāda:

mahā-bhūtāny ahaṅkāro buddhir avyaktam eva ca indriyāṇi daśaikaṁ ca pañca cendriya-gocarāḥ

icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaś cetanā dhṛtiḥ etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛtam

[Bg. 13.6–7]

[The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses, the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred, …

This is more or less sāṅkhya philosophy, analysis of material elements. We are embodied in material elements. Kṛṣṇa is questioned …

This owner of this body: one individual soul and the Supersoul. Just like owner of this storefront. The tenant is …

People are after knowledge. So many there are, departments of knowledge. But according to Bhagavad-gītā, real knowledge is to understand …

[reads commentary] Khadiny ahaṅkāras tad-hetus tamaso bhūtādi-saṁjño buddhis tad-hetur...pradhāno mahān avyaktaṁ tad-hetus tri-guṇavasthaṁ pradhāna indriyāṇi śrotrādīni, one after another.

This sky and false ego is due to the intelligence. Everything begins from the subtle. The most subtle element is …

So we may be very proud of advancement of knowledge, but actually we are not yet advanced, so far material …

So the Buddhist theory that this intelligence or consciousness take place at a certain point of material mixture. But that …

So we have to take it from authoritative scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā, the Vedic literature, that soul is different from this …

Now, we have got ten different kinds of senses: five senses, working senses, and five senses acquiring knowledge. But these …

In this way, this body is composition of twenty-four elements. That is the analytical study of Bhagavad-gītā. And the sāṅkhya …

So actually, there are twenty-six different elements which is conducting this material world. Etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhṛtam [Bg. 13.6–7]. …

Either you take the gigantic body of this universe or you take the body of this planet or you take …

So gradually they manifest, they divide by three guṇas. Three guṇas means in the mahat-tattva, in the total material reservoir, …

Now, of course, we can theoretically accept that this is the position, but actually to understand this position, to acquire …