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Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
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mahā-bhūtāny ahaṅkāro  
 buddhir avyaktam eva ca  
 indriyāṇi daśaikaṁ ca  
 pañca cendriya-gocarāḥ
icchā dveṣaḥ sukhaṁ duḥkhaṁ saṅghātaś cetanā dhṛtiḥ etat kṣetraṁ samāsena sa-vikāram udāhrtam
mahā-bhūtāni —great elements;  ahaṅkāraḥ —false ego;  buddhiḥ —intelligence;  avyaktam —the unmanifested;  eva —certainly;  ca —also;  indriyāṇi —senses;  daśa ekam —eleven;  ca —also;  pañca —five;  ca —also;  indriya-gocarāḥ —objects of the senses;  icchā —desire;  dveṣaḥ —hatred;  sukham —happiness;  duḥkham —distress;  saṅghātaḥ —the aggregate;  cetanā —living symptoms;  dhṛtiḥ —conviction;  etat —all this;  kṣetram —field of activities;  samāsena —in summary;  sa-vikāram —interaction;  udāhṛtam —exemplified.
TRANSLATION
The five great elements, false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses, the mind, the five sense objects, desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions—all these are considered, in summary, to be the field of activities and its interactions.
PURPORT
From all the authoritative statements of the great sages, the Vedic hymns and the aphorisms of the  Vedānta-sūtra , the components of this world are earth, water, fire, air and ether. These are the five great elements ( mahābhūta ). Then there are false ego, intelligence and the unmanifested stage of the three modes of nature. Then there are five senses for acquiring knowledge: the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and touch. Then five working senses: voice, legs, hands, the anus and the genitals. Then, above the senses, there is the mind, which is within and which can be called the sense within. Therefore, including the mind, there are eleven senses altogether. Then there are the five objects of the senses: smell, taste, warmth, touch and sound. Now the aggregate of these twenty-four elements is called the field of activity. If one makes an analytical study of these twenty-four subjects, then he can very well understand the field of activity. Then there is desire,