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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.26.2

గుణమయ్యా జీవయోన్యా విముక్తో జ్ఞాననిష్ఠయా । గుణేషు మాయామాత్రేషు ద‍ృశ్యమానేష్వవస్తుత: । వర్తమానోఽపి న పుమాన్ యుజ్యతేఽవస్తుభిర్గుణై: ॥ ౨ ॥
guṇa-mayyā jīva-yonyā
[guna-mayyaa jeeva-yonyaa]
vimukto jṣāna-niṣṭhayā
[vimukto jshaana-nishthayaa]
guṇeṣu māyā-mātreṣu
[guneshu maayaa-maatreshu]
dṛśyamāneṣv avastutaḥ
[drishyamaaneshv avastutah]
vartamāno ’pi na pumān
[vartamaano ’pi na pumaan]
yujyate ’vastubhir guṇaiḥ
[yujyate ’vastubhir gunaih]
guṇa-mayyā — based on the modes of nature jīva-yonyā — from the cause of material life, false identification vimuktaḥ — one who has become completely free jṣāna — in transcendental knowledge niṣṭhayā — by being properly fixed guṇeṣu — among the products of the modes of nature māyā-mātreṣu — which are simply illusion dṛśyamāneṣu — appearing before the eyes avastutaḥ — although not real vartamānaḥ — living api — although na — does not pumān — that person yujyate — become entangled avastubhiḥ — unreal guṇaiḥ — with the manifestations of the modes of nature.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
guṇa-mayyā jīva-yonyā
guṇa-mayyā
based on the modes of nature
jīva-yonyā
from the cause of material life, false identification
vimukto jṣāna-niṣṭhayā
vimuktaḥ
one who has become completely free
jṣāna
in transcendental knowledge
niṣṭhayā
by being properly fixed
guṇeṣu māyā-mātreṣu
guṇeṣu
among the products of the modes of nature
māyā-mātreṣu
which are simply illusion
dṛśyamāneṣv avastutaḥ
dṛśyamāneṣu
appearing before the eyes
avastutaḥ
although not real
vartamāno ’pi na pumān
vartamānaḥ
living
api
although
yujyate ’vastubhir guṇaiḥ
na
does not
pumān
that person
yujyate
become entangled
avastubhiḥ
unreal
guṇaiḥ
with the manifestations of the modes of nature.
A person fixed in transcendental knowledge is freed from conditioned life by giving up his false identification with the products of the material modes of nature. Seeing these products as simply illusion, he avoids entanglement with the modes of nature, although constantly among them. Because the modes of nature and their products are simply not real, he does not accept them.

The three modes of nature become manifest as varieties of material bodies, places, families, countries, foods, sports, war, peace and so forth. In other words, everything we see within the material world is constituted of the modes of nature. A liberated soul, although existing within the ocean of material energy, sees everything as the property of the Lord and is thus not entangled. Although Māyā tempts such a liberated soul to become a thief — to steal the property of the Lord for sense gratification — a Kṛṣṇa conscious person does not bite the bait of Māyā ; he remains honest and pure in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In other words, he does not believe that anything within the universe can become his personal property for sense gratification, especially the illusory form of a woman.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Freed from the material coverings composed of the guṇas and imposed on the jīva, by being fixed in knowledge, existing amidst material sense objects but seeing them as insubstantial, a person is not entangled by these insubstantial objects. Liberated from the upādhis or coverings on the jīva composed of guṇas, a person is not entangled by objects which are insubstantial, though he continues to exist amidst sense objects (guṇeṣu) which are material (māyā-mātreṣu), which have no relationship with the Supreme Lord. He is not attached like a conditioned jīva. Why? He sees those objects to be unreal. He sees only me, Paramātmā.
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