Bhagavad Gita 7.4
भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च | अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ||
bhūmir āpo'nalo vāyuḥ khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca | ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā ||
Translation
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, understanding, and egoism, this is my nature divided eightfold.
Reflection
What inner reaction would feel different if you saw it as weather rather than as you?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Seven
He lists eight, plainly. Earth, water, fire, air, space. Then mind, intellect, ego. The first five are the body and the world. The last three are usually thought of as inside. Krishna puts them in the same category. Mind, intellect, the sense of being a separate self, all of these are nature too, not the knower. They are equipment. They run on their own laws like weather. Many of the inner struggles a man takes personally start to ease the moment this is seen. The thinking that loops, the mood that turns, the self-protective flare, none of them are him. They are the lower nature operating. The owner stands behind them.