Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 2.5.31

taijasat tu vikurvanad

indriyani dasabhavan

jnana-saktih kriya-saktir

buddhih pranas ca taijasau

srotram tvag-ghrana-drg-jihva

vag-dor-medhranghri-payavah

SYNONYMS

taijasat -- by the passionate egoism; tu -- but; vikurvanat -- transformation of; indriyani -- the senses; dasa -- ten; abhavan -- generated; jnana-saktih -- the five senses for acquiring knowledge; kriya-saktih -- the five senses of activities; buddhih -- intelligence; pranah -- the living energy; ca -- also; taijasau -- all products of the mode of passion; srotram -- the sense for hearing; tvak -- the sense for touching; ghrana -- the sense for smelling; drk -- the sense for seeing; jihvah -- the sense for tasting; vak -- the sense for speaking; doh -- the sense for handling; medhra -- the genitals; anghri -- the legs; payavah -- the sense for evacuating.

TRANSLATION

By further transformation of the mode of passion, the sense organs like the ear, skin, nose, eyes, tongue, mouth, hands, genitals, legs, and the outlet for evacuating, together with intelligence and living energy, are all generated.

PURPORT

The living condition in material existence depends more or less on one's intelligence and powerful living energy. Intelligence to counteract the hard struggle for existence is assisted by the senses for acquiring knowledge, and the living energy maintains himself by manipulating the active organs, like the hands and legs. But on the whole, the struggle for existence is an exertion of the mode of passion. Therefore all the sense organs, headed by intelligence and the living energy, prana, are different products and by-products of the second mode of nature, called passion. This mode of passion, however, is the product of the air element, as described before.

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