# Material existence
*47 references in Bhagavad-gītā As It Is*
* a source of perplexity for everyone, **[[bg/1/31#translation|Bg. 1.31]]**
* begins only for souls, **[[bg/2/12#translation|Bg. 2.12]]**
* coers living entity, **[[bg/3/38#translation|Bg. 3.38]]**
* compared to passenger in machine, **[[bg/6/35#translation|Bg. 6.35]]**, **[[bg/18/62#translation|Bg. 18.62]]**
* conscious of only one body, [[bg/0a|Bg. Introduction]], **[[bg/13/3#translation|Bg. 13.3]]**
* covers pure consciousness and knowledge, **[[bg/3/39#translation|Bg. 3.39]]**, **[[bg/3/42#translation|Bg. 3.42]]**
* defined as perplexity for everyone, **[[bg/1/31#translation|Bg. 1.31]]**
* demons bound by, **[[bg/16/10#translation|Bg. 16.10]]**, **[[bg/16/13-15#translation|Bg. 16.13-15]]**, **[[bg/16/19#translation|Bg. 16.19]]**
* demons claim it as cause of world, **[[bg/16/8#translation|Bg. 16.8]]**
* due to misuse of independence, [[bg/3/37|Bg. 3.37]]
* fashions body according to desire, **[[bg/18/62#translation|Bg. 18.62]]**
* four principles of, [[bg/0a|Bg. Introduction]]
* its problems cannot be counteracted by wealth, *[[bg/2/8#purport|Bg. 2.8]]*, **[[bg/2/9#translation|Bg. 2.9]]**
* later transformed to wrath, [[bg/3/37|Bg. 3.37]]
* livened up by spiritual sky, **[[bg/15/6#translation|Bg. 15.6]]**
* material nature absorbed in Mahā-Viṣṇu, **[[bg/13/20#translation|Bg. 13.20]]**
* material sky, **[[bg/18/22#translation|Bg. 18.22]]**
* never satisfied, burns like fire, **[[bg/3/39#translation|Bg. 3.39]]**
* one must be served if mind not conquered, **[[bg/6/7#translation|Bg. 6.7]]**
* pervades creation, lives in all elements, **[[bg/2/25#translation|Bg. 2.25]]**
* process of impregnation, **[[bg/8/4#translation|Bg. 8.4]]**
* relation to senses, **[[bg/2/70#translation|Bg. 2.70]]**, **[[bg/3/42#translation|Bg. 3.42]]**, *[[bg/13/1-2#purport|Bg. 13.1-2]]*, **[[bg/13/22#translation|Bg. 13.22]]**, **[[bg/15/10#translation|Bg. 15.10]]**
* serious problem for living entity, **[[bg/18/22#translation|Bg. 18.22]]**
* soul as basis of, **[[bg/2/17#translation|Bg. 2.17]]**, **[[bg/2/19#translation|Bg. 2.19]]**, **[[bg/3/4#translation|Bg. 3.4]]**, **[[bg/7/7#translation|Bg. 7.7]]**, **[[bg/10/21#translation|Bg. 10.21]]**
* subsists on food grains, **[[bg/3/14#translation|Bg. 3.14]]**
* theory of oneness with soul, **[[bg/18/22#translation|Bg. 18.22]]**
* tortured by demonic, **[[bg/17/5-6#translation|Bg. 17.5-6]]**, **[[bg/17/7#translation|Bg. 17.7]]**
* tree of going to hell, **[[bg/16/22#translation|Bg. 16.22]]**
* types of conditioned beings, **[[bg/14/6#translation|Bg. 14.6]]**, **[[bg/14/7#translation|Bg. 14.7]]**