1354 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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

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vipanas tu kriya-saktir
bhitta-prakrtir avyaya

Sakty-adhigah pumamis tv atra
pravisto navabudhyate

vipanah—stores; tu—then; kriya-saktih—the energy for activities, or the
working senses; bhiita—the five gross elements; prakrtih—the material
elements; avyaya—eternal; sakti—the energy ; adhigah—controller; puman—
man; tu—then; atra—here; pravistah—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 (navabudhyate).
Intelligence is described in the feminine gender, but owing to her promi-
nence in all activities, she is described in this verse as adhigah, 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 prakrti, material creation. All the elements gradually
