14. The protozoa are strengthened by drinking the juice of the fruits, which are ripened by the light and heat of the sun, and then they remain in a state of insensibility; until they enter the animal body.
15. The animated animalcules, remain in the womb with their undeveloped desires; in the same manner as the unopening leaves, are contained in the seed of the bata or Indian fig tree.
16. All lives are situated in the Great God, as fire is inherent in the wood, and the pot resides in the earth; and it is after many processes that they have their full development.
17. One that has received no bodily form, and yet moves on without manifesting itself, is said to be a satya or spiritual being, and has a large scope of action (as the gods).
18. He is said to have a sátvika birth, who gets his liberation in or after his life-time; but whoever is obliged to be reborn by his acts, is said to belong to the rájas-sátvika class.
19. Any one of this class who is born to rule over others, becomes giddy with pride (tamas), he is said to be of the nature of ignorance támasika, and I will now speak of this class of beings.
20. Those who are born originally with their sátwika nature, are pure in their conduct and have never to be born again.
21. Men of rája-sátwika temperament have to be reborn on earth; but being elevated by their reasoning powers, they have no more to be born in this nether world.
22. Those who have directly proceeded from the Supreme Spirit (without any intermixture of these natures), are men fraught with every quality, and are very rare on earth.
23. The various classes of támasa creatures of ignorance, are both insensible and speechless; and are of the nature of immovable vegetables and minerals, that need no description.