।।3.27।।प्रकृतेः गुणैः सत्त्वादिभिः स्वानुरूपं क्रियमाणानि कर्माणि प्रति अहंकारविमूढात्मा अहं कर्ता इति मन्यते। अहंकारेण विमूढ आत्मा यस्य असौ अहंकारविमूढात्मा अहंकारो नाम अनहमर्थे प्रकृतौ अहम् इति अभिमानः तेन अज्ञातात्मस्वरूपो गुणकर्मसु अहं कर्ता इति मन्यते इत्यर्थः।
3.27 It is the Gunas of Prakrti like Sattva, Rajas etc., that perform all the activities appropriate to them. But the man, whose nature is deluded by his Ahankara, thinks, 'I am the doer of all these actions.' Ahankara is the mistaken conception of 'I' applied to the workings of Prakrti which is not the 'I'. The meaning is that it is because of this (Ahankara), that one who is ignorant of the real nature of the self, thinks, 'I am the doer' with regard to the activities that are really being done by the Gunas of Prakrti.
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