Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 3, Verse 28

तत्त्ववित्तु महाबाहो गुणकर्मविभागयोः । गुणा गुणेषु वर्तन्त इति मत्वा न सज्जते

tattvavittu mahābāho guṇakarmavibhāgayoḥ | guṇā guṇeṣu vartanta iti matvā na sajjate

Translation

But he who knows the truth, O mighty-armed, about the divisions of the energies and (their) functions, is not attached, thinking that the energies act upon the energies.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

tattvavit

the essence-knower

tu

indeed

mahābāho

O mighty-armed (ii. 26)

guṇakarmavibhāgayoḥ

of the qualities, and, of the actions, and, of the (two) divisions

guṇāḥ

the qualities

guṇeṣu

in the qualities

vartante

exist

iti

thus

matvā

having thought

na

not

sajjate

is attached

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

He who is versed in the classification of the energies (guṇas) and their respective functions holds that the energies as sense-organs move amid the energies as sense-objects, but not the Self. Thus holding, he forms no attachment for actions.