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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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तैजसात्तु विकुर्वाणादिन्द्रियाणि दशाभवन् ज्ञानशक्तिः क्रियाशक्तिर्बुद्धिः प्राणश्च तैजसौ श्रोत्रं त्वग्घ्राणदृग्जिह्वा वाग्दोर्मेढ्राङ्घ्रिपायवः
taijasāt tu vikurvāṇād indriyāṇi daśābhavan jñāna-śaktiḥ kriyā-śaktir buddhiḥ prāṇaś ca taijasau śrotraṁ tvag-ghrāṇa-dṛg-jihvā vāg-dor-meḍhrāṅghri-pāyavaḥ
WORD BY WORD
taijasāt by the passionate egoism; tu but; vikurvāṇāt transformation of; indriyāṇi the senses; daśa ten; abhavan generated; jñāna-śaktiḥ the five senses for acquiring knowledge; kriyā-śaktiḥ the five senses of activities; buddhiḥ intelligence; prāṇaḥ the living energy; ca also; taijasau all products of the mode of passion; śrotram the sense for hearing; tvak the sense for touching; ghrāṇa the sense for smelling; dṛk the sense for seeing; jihvāḥ the sense for tasting; vāk the sense for speaking; doḥ the sense for handling; meḍhra the genitals; aṅghri the legs; pāyavaḥ 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.
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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, prāṇa, 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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