Bhagavatapurana 5.1.14

5.1.14

yad-vāci tantyāṃ guṇa-karma-dāmabhiḥ sudustarair vatsa vayaṃ suyojitāḥ /
sarve vahāmo balim īśvarāya protā nasīva dvi-pade catuṣ-padaḥ //

14. Being linked together by the wire of His word with the inextricable knots of guna and karma, we all bear our offering to the supreme Ruler even as the four-footed animals that are governed by the strings run through their nostrils do the will of man (the bifooted).