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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 11]
evacuation] and the different types of bodies, society, friendship and personality are considered by learned scholars the fields of activity for the functions of the mind.
PURPORT
The mind is the controller of the five knowledge-acquiring senses and the five working senses. Each sense has its particular field of activity. In all cases, the mind is the controller or owner. By the false ego one thinks oneself the body and thinks in terms of “my body, my house, my family, my society, my nation” and so on. These false identifications are due to the expansions of the false ego. Thus one thinks that he is this or that. Thus the living entity becomes entangled in material existence.
TEXT 10
गन्धाकृतिस्पर्शरसश्रवांसि
विसर्गरत्यर्त्यभिजल्पशिल्पाः ।
एकादशं स्वीकरणं ममेति
शय्यामहं द्वादशमेक आहुः ॥१०॥
gandhākṛti-sparśa-rasa-śravāṁsi
visarga-raty-arty-abhijalpa-śilpāḥ
ekādaśaṁ svīkaraṇaṁ mameti
śayyām ahaṁ dvādaśam eka āhuḥ
gandha —smell;  ākṛti —form;  sparśa —touch;  rasa —taste;  śravāṁsi —and sound;  visarga —evacuating;  rati —sexual intercourse;  arti —movement;  abhijalpa —speaking;  śilpāḥ —grasping or releasing;  ekādaśaṁ —eleventh;  svīkaraṇaṁ —accepting as;  mama —mine;  iti —thus;  śayyām —this body;  aham —I;  dvādaśam —twelfth;  eke —some;  āhuḥ —have said.
TRANSLATION
Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the objects of the five knowledge-acquiring senses. Speech, touch, movement, evacuation and sexual intercourse are the objects of the working senses.