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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 28]
mouth, two nostrils, one genital and one rectum. These holes are compared to gates in the walls of the city. The principal ingredients are earth, water and fire, and the principal actor is the mind, which is controlled by the intelligence ( buddhi ).
TEXT 58
विपणस्तु क्रियाशक्तिर्भूतप्रकृतिर्व्यथा ।  
 शक्त्यधीशः पुमांस्त्वत्र प्रविष्टो नावबुध्यते ॥५८॥
vipaṇas tu kriyā-śaktir 
    bhūta-prakṛtir avyayā 
    śakty-adhīśaḥ pumāmis tv atra 
    praviṣṭo nāvabudhyate
vipaṇaḥ —stores;  tu —then;  kriyā-śaktiḥ —the energy for activities, or the working senses;  bhūta —the five gross elements;  prakṛtiḥ —the material elements;  avyayā —eternal;  śakti —the energy;  adhīśaḥ —controller;  pumān —man;  tu —then;  atra —here;  praviṣṭaḥ —entered;  na —does not;  avabudhyate —become subjected to knowledge.
TRANSLATION
The five stores are the five working sensory organs. They transact their business through the combined forces of the five elements, which are eternal. Behind all this activity is the soul. The soul is a person and an enjoyer in reality. However, because he is now hidden within the city of the body, he is devoid of knowledge.
PURPORT
The living entity enters the material creation with the aid of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and ether—and thus his body is formed. Although the living entity is working from within, he is nonetheless unknown. The living entity enters the material creation, but because he is bewildered by the material energy, he appears to be hidden. The bodily conception of life is prominent because of ignorance ( nāvabudhyate ). Intelligence is described in the feminine gender, but owing to her prominence in all activities, she is described in this verse as  adhīśaḥ , the controller. The living entity lives by means of fire, water and foodgrain. It is through the combination of these three that the body is maintained. Consequently the body is called  prakṛti , material creation. All the elements gradually