161 ([return])
[ The word rendered “nature” is prakriti. It really implies “primal matter.”]
162 ([return])
[ The second line, literally rendered, is “deeming that qualities engage in qualities.” The first “qualities” imply the senses, and the second, the objects of the senses. The purport is that one knowing the distinction referred to, never thinks that his soul is the actor, for that which is work is only the result of the senses being applied to their objects.]
163 ([return])
[ Guna-karmashu is explained by Sankara as works of the qualities, or works done by them. Sreedhara explains the compound as “qualities and (their) works.”]
164 ([return])
[ Devoting all work to me, i.e., in the belief that all you do is for me or my sake.]
165 ([return])
[ The senses, as regards their diverse objects in the world, are either drawn towards them or repelled by them. These likes and dislikes (in the case of men who, of course, only act according to their nature) stand in the way of their emancipation, if men submit to them.]