How the three qualities of nature keep us bound to our bodies

Of these three constituents of nature, even the stainless quality of purity, harmony and goodness that brings enlightenment and health will bind you to your physical body by giving rise to happiness and knowledge which your mind becomes attached to getting and keeping. The quality of restlessness, passion and dynamic energy gives birth to desire and compulsive behavior which strongly binds the soul to the physical body by encouraging it to perform selfish actions. The quality of darkness, inertia and decay is born of ignorance about reality and will bind you to your body by creating delusion, carelessness, laziness and dullness. Good, bad or indifferent, they all lead to attachment to the illusion of the world in their own way.