Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 2

Sanskrit:

गुणमय्या जीवयोन्या विमुक्तो ज्ञाननिष्ठया ।गुणेषु मायामात्रेषु द‍ृश्यमानेष्ववस्तुत: ।वर्तमानोऽपि न पुमान् युज्यतेऽवस्तुभिर्गुणै: ॥ २ ॥

ITRANS:

guṇa-mayyā jīva-yonyāvimukto jñāna-niṣṭhayāguṇeṣu māyā-mātreṣudṛśyamāneṣv avastutaḥvartamāno ’pi na pumānyujyate ’vastubhir guṇaiḥ

Translation:

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.

Purport:

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.