Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.85.10

indriyam tv indriyanam tvam

devas ca tad-anugrahah

avabodho bhavan buddher

jivasyanusmritih sati

SYNONYMS

indriyam -- the power to illuminate their objects; tu -- and; indriyanam -- of the senses; tvam -- You; devah -- the demigods (who regulate the various senses); ca -- and; tat -- of them (the demigods); anugrahah -- the mercy (by which one's senses can act); avabodhah -- the power of decision; bhavan -- You; buddheh -- of intelligence; jivasya -- of the living entity; anusmritih -- the power of recollection; sati -- correct.

TRANSLATION

You are the power of the senses to reveal their objects, the senses' presiding demigods, and the sanction these demigods give for sensory activity. You are the capacity of the intelligence for decision-making, and the living being's ability to remember things accurately.

PURPORT

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti points out that whenever one of the material senses is involved with its object, the presiding demigod of that particular sense organ must give his sanction. Acarya Visvanatha Cakravarti explains the word anusmriti in this verse in its higher sense, as one's recognition of himself as an eternal spirit soul.

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