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Bhagavatapurana 11.23.43

Bhāgavatapurāṇa 11.23.43

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11.23.43

mano guṇān vai sṛjate balīyas tataś ca karmāṇi vilakṣaṇāni /
śuklāni kṛṣṇāny atha lohitāni tebhyaḥ sa-varṇāḥ sṛtayo bhavanti //

44. The powerful mind indeed makes the various gunas function and through them brings about wonderful and various karma or acts, white, dark, or red, (i. e., Satvika, Tamasa or Rajasa) and thence result the several (courses of life) agreeing with the colours of the acts.

S. Subba Rau 1928, The Srimad Bhagavatam

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