Influence of material nature

Expressions researched:
"influence of material nature" |"influence of the arrangement of material nature" |"influence of the material nature" |"influence of these different types of material nature" |"influence of these laws of material nature" |"influence of these twenty-four elements and the material nature and the three gunas" |"influence of this inferior, material nature" |"influence of this material nature" |"influence or power of the material nature" |"material nature, cannot be subordinate to nature’s influence"

BG Chapters 7 - 12

Every living entity under the influence of material nature has a particular type of body and a particular type of psychological and biological activities accordingly.

BG 7.13, Purport:

Every living entity under the influence of material nature has a particular type of body and a particular type of psychological and biological activities accordingly. There are four classes of men functioning in the three material modes of nature. Those who are purely in the mode of goodness are called brāhmaṇas. Those who are purely in the mode of passion are called kṣatriyas. Those who are in the modes of both passion and ignorance are called vaiśyas. Those who are completely in ignorance are called śūdras. And those who are less than that are animals or animal life. However, these designations are not permanent. I may either be a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya or whatever-in any case, this life is temporary. But although life is temporary and we do not know what we are going to be in the next life, by the spell of this illusory energy we consider ourselves in terms of this bodily conception of life, and we thus think that we are American, Indian, Russian, or brāhmaṇa. Hindu, Muslim, etc. And if we become entangled with the modes of material nature, then we forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is behind all these modes. So Lord Kṛṣṇa says that living entities deluded by these three modes of nature do not understand that behind the material background is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.