Material covering (Books)

Expressions researched:
"cross this material sky, penetrate the covering" |"material bodily coverings" |"material body is covering" |"material body is his covering" |"material body is my covering" |"material body is the covering" |"material body is the covering" |"material body is your covering" |"material consciousness is the covering" |"material covering" |"material coverings" |"material elements is covering" |"material elements. Each covering" |"material energy is the covering energy" |"material energy, is covering" |"material energy. Beyond this covering" |"material nature is not covering" |"material spheres of the coverings" |"material things are acting, covering the soul" |"material world, there is covering" |"the covering is there"

BG Chapters 13 - 18

The Supreme Lord's senses are transcendental and are therefore called nirguṇa. Guṇa means the material modes, but His senses are without material covering.

BG 13.15, Purport:

The Supreme Lord, although the source of all the senses of the living entities, doesn't have material senses like they have. Actually, the individual souls have spiritual senses, but in conditioned life they are covered with the material elements, and therefore the sense activities are exhibited through matter. The Supreme Lord's senses are not so covered. His senses are transcendental and are therefore called nirguṇa. Guṇa means the material modes, but His senses are without material covering. It should be understood that His senses are not exactly like ours. Although He is the source of all our sensory activities, He has His transcendental senses, which are uncontaminated.

The conditioned soul is covered by the material body, with the mind and the senses, and when he is liberated this material covering perishes, but his spiritual body manifests itself in its individual capacity.

BG 15.7, Purport:

The word karṣati ("struggling" or "grappling hard") is very significant. The conditioned soul is bound up, as though shackled by iron chains. He is bound up by the false ego, and the mind is the chief agent which is driving him in this material existence. When the mind is in the mode of goodness, his activities are good; when the mind is in the mode of passion, his activities are troublesome; and when the mind is in the mode of ignorance, he travels in the lower species of life. It is clear, however, in this verse, that the conditioned soul is covered by the material body, with the mind and the senses, and when he is liberated this material covering perishes, but his spiritual body manifests itself in its individual capacity.