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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.31
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 31
- taijasāt tu vikurvāṇād
- indriyāṇi daśābhavan
- jñāna-śaktiḥ kriyā-śaktir
- buddhiḥ prāṇaś ca taijasau
- śrotraṁ tvag-ghrāṇa-dṛg-jihvā
- vāg-dor-meḍhrāṅghri-pāyavaḥ
taijasātby the passionate egoism — by the passionate egoism; tubut — but; vikurvāṇāttransformation of — transformation of; indriyāṇithe senses — the senses; daśaten — ten; abhavangenerated — generated; jñānathe five senses for acquiring knowledge-śaktiḥthe five senses for acquiring knowledge — the five senses for acquiring knowledge; kriyāthe five senses of activities-śaktiḥthe five senses of activities — the five senses of activities; buddhiḥintelligence — intelligence; prāṇaḥthe living energy — the living energy; caalso — also; taijasauall products of the mode of passion — all products of the mode of passion; śrotramthe sense for hearing — the sense for hearing; tvakthe sense for touching — the sense for touching; ghrāṇathe sense for smelling — the sense for smelling; dṛkthe sense for seeing — the sense for seeing; jihvāḥthe sense for tasting — the sense for tasting; vākthe sense for speaking — the sense for speaking; doḥthe sense for handling — the sense for handling; meḍhrathe genitals — the genitals; aṅghrithe legs — the legs; pāyavaḥthe sense for evacuating — the sense for evacuating.
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.
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.