The Lord continues: In this city [the material body], there are five gardens, nine gates, a guardian [a protector], three lodgings, six families, five stores, five material elements and a woman, who is the mistress of the household.
Dear friend, the five gardens represent the five objects of the satisfaction of the senses [olfactory, auditory, tactile, visual and gustatory], and the guardian is the vital breath, which circulates through the nine gates [the nine orifices of the body; two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth, anus and genitals]. The three dwellings symbolize the essential elements: fire [heat], water and earth. The six families are made up of the whole of the mind and the five senses [sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing].
The five stores are the five organs of action [arms, legs, mouth, genitals and anus], acting through the combined forces of the five elements [the earth, the water, fire, air and ether], which are eternal. The soul stands behind this display of activity. In reality, it is a person, himself destined for pleasure. However, because she is now hidden in the city of the body, she is deprived of knowledge.
When you come to inhabit such a body, with the woman of material desires [For example, before being reborn in a woman's body, the soul was in a man's body, but because of certain culpable acts, she had to put on the body of a woman in her next life. The Lord clearly teaches that the female body is of an inferior nature. However, by taking refuge with God, the Supreme Person, even a being of low birth can rise to the highest perfection. It is when his spiritual intelligence is reduced that the being must take a lower birth], material pleasure completely subjugates you and makes you forget your spiritual life. Because of your material conceptions, you are forced to endure all kinds of miserable conditions.
Truth be told, you are not Vidarbha's daughter, nor is this man, Malayadhvaja, your all-loving husband. as you were not in fact, in your previous birth, the husband of Puranjani. You are simply imprisoned in this body with nine doors.
Sometimes you think you are a man, other times a chaste woman, and still other times a eunuch. It all comes from the body created by the illusory energy. So know that this illusory energy is My power, and that in truth, you and I are pure spiritual entities. Just try to understand this truth, for I am trying to explain to you both our real natures.
Dear friend, I, the Supreme Soul, and you, the distinct soul, do not delay the one of the other, at least in quality, for we are both spiritual in nature. To tell the truth, my friend, by your own constitution, you are qualitatively identical to Myself. Try to understand these things. True scholars, who have perfect knowledge, do not make any qualitative difference between you and I.
The Lord constantly helps the incarnate spiritual soul, and as long as she turns to Krishna, she will hear him speak to him or receive by thought his right advice and instructions from within his body of matter.