Gītārtha Saṃgraha verse 18
गुणबन्धविधा तेषां कर्तृत्वं तन्निवर्तनम् । गतित्रयस्वमूलत्वं चतुर्दश उदीर्यते ॥ १८॥guṇa-bandha-vidhā teṣāṃ kartṛtvaṃ tan-nivartanam ।
gati-traya-sva-mūlatvaṃ caturdaśa udīryate ॥
“This human system is dictated by different qualities
which decide our present and the future.
But one who constantly remembers the lord has nothing to worry.”
guṇa - an ingredient or constituent or attribute of nature; a property or characteristic of all created things; qualities; a quality, peculiarity, attribute or property; the peculiar properties of the lettersbandha - fixing, directing; binding, tying, a bond, tie, chain, fettervidhā - to distribute, apportion, grant, bestow; to furnish, supply, procure; to spread, diffuse; to put in order, arrange, dispose, prepare, make ready; to put or lay on or in, direct towardsteṣām - of those, amongst them; all of themkartṛtva - Being agent; the state of being the performer or author of anything;tan - to be protracted, continue, endure; to stretch, extend or bend, spread, spin out, weavenivartana - causing to turn back; turning back, returning, turning the back; ceasing, not happening or occurring, being preventedgati - going, moving, gait, deportment, motion in generaltraya - the three, triple, threefold, consisting of 3, of 3 kindssva - own; one's self, one's own, my own, thy own, his own, her own, our own, their ownmūla - rootcaturdaśa - consisting of 14; the 14thudīryate - is uttered; is raised
