A person putting on a turban has his head circled with three folds of a piece of cloth. Similarly the embodied Soul is invested with the three qualities of Goodness, and Ignorance. But though thus invested, the Soul is not identical with those qualities.
उष्णीषवान् यथा वस्त्रैस्त्रिभिर्भवति संवृतः। संवृतोऽयं तथा देही सत्त्वराजसतामसैः॥