ज्ञानं कर्म च कर्ताच त्रिधैव गुणभेदतः |\nप्रोच्यते गुणसङ्ख्याने यथावच्छृणु तान्यपि ||१८-१९||
jñānaṃ karma ca kartāca tridhaiva guṇabhedataḥ .\nprocyate guṇasaṅkhyāne yathāvacchṛṇu tānyapi ||18-19||
Knowledge, action, and the doer are declared to be of three kinds in the Sānkhya philosophy, distinguished according to the three modes of material nature. Listen, and I will explain their distinctions to you.