The bodies of living creatures, O foremost of Bharata's race, are the result of the combination of the virtues of these five. Those virtues repeatedly come into being and repeatedly merge into the Supreme Soul.
स तेषां गुणसंघातः शरीरं भरतर्षभ। सततं हि प्रलीयन्ते गुणास्ते प्रभवन्ति च॥