sattvikah -- in the mode of goodness; karakah -- the performer of activities; asangi -- free from attachment; raga-andhah -- blinded by personal desire; rajasah -- the performer in the mode of passion; smritah -- is considered; tamasah -- the performer in the mode of ignorance; smriti -- from remembrance of what is what; vibhrashtah -- fallen; nirgunah -- transcendental; mat-apasrayah -- he who has taken shelter of Me.

A worker free of attachment is in the mode of goodness, a worker blinded by personal desire is in the mode of passion, and a worker who has completely forgotten how to tell right from wrong is in the mode of ignorance. But a worker who has taken shelter of Me is understood to be transcendental to the modes of nature.