SB 11.22.33
yo ’sau guna-ksobha-krto vikarah
pradhana-mulan mahatah prasutah
aham tri-vrn moha-vikalpa-hetur
vaikarikas tamasa aindriyas ca
Translation:
When the three modes of nature are agitated, the resultant transformation appears as the element false ego in three phases — goodness, passion and ignorance. Generated from the mahat-tattva, which is itself produced from the unmanifest pradhana, this false ego becomes the cause of all material illusion and duality.
Purport:
By giving up one’s false ego of identification with the three modes of nature, one can achieve Krsna consciousness, the pure, original state of existence. The word moha-vikalpa-hetuh indicates that because of false ego one considers himself to be the enjoyer of nature and thus develops a false sense of material duality in terms of material happiness and distress. False ego is removed by identifying oneself as the Lord’s eternal servitor in full Krsna consciousness.