The elemental creation and the worlds
Ancient Īśvarakṛṣṇa SanskritSK 53
The divine [order] is of eight varieties; the animal kind is fivefold; and the human is of a single kind. Such, in brief, is the elemental creation.
SK 54
Above, the creation abounds in sattva; below, at the base, it abounds in tamas; in the middle, it abounds in rajas — [this holds] from Brahmā down to a blade of grass.
SK 55
Therein the conscious puruṣa (self) undergoes the suffering wrought by old age and death, so long as the liṅga (mark-body) does not cease. Therefore suffering is, by [its very] nature, [inherent in embodied existence].