1390 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 4, Ch. 29

pajicendriyartha-praksepah
sapta-dhatu-variithakah

akitir vikramo bahyo
mrga-trsnam pradhavati

ekadasendriya-camih
paiica-siind vinoda-krt

dehah—body; rathah— chariot; tu— but; indriya— the knowledge-acquiring
senses; aSvah—the horses; sanivatsara—total years; rayah—duration of life;
agatih— without advancing; dvi two; karma— activities; cakrah— wheels; tri—
three; guna—modes of nature; dhvajah—flags; pafica—five; asu—life airs;
bandhurah— bondage ; manah—the mind; rasmih—rope; buddhi—intelligence;
sitah—chariot driver; hrt—heart; nidah—sitting place; dvandva—duality;
kitbarah—the posts for the harness; pafica—five; indriya-artha—sense ob-
jects; praksepah—weapons; sapta—seven; dhatu—elements; variithakah—
coverings; dkiitih— attempts of the five working senses; vikramah—prowess
or processes; bah yah—external; mrga-trsndm—false aspiration; pradhdvati—
runs after; ekadasa—eleven; indriya—senses; camiih—soldiers; paiica—five;
siind—enviousness; vinoda— pleasure; krt— doing.

TRANSLATION

Narada Municontinued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality
the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As time passes,
year after year, these horses run without obstruction, but in fact they
make no progress. Pious and impious activities are the two wheels of the
chariot. The three modes of material nature are the chariot’s flags. The
five types of life air constitute the living entity’s bondage, and the mind is
considered to be the rope. Intelligence is the chariot driver. The heart is the
sitting place in the chariot, and the dualities of life, such as pleasure and
pain, are the knotting place. The seven elements are the coverings of the
chariot, and the working senses are the five external processes. The eleven
senses are the soldiers. Being engrossed in sense enjoyment, the living
entity, seated on the chariot, hankers after fulfillment of his false desires
and runs after sense enjoyment life after life.

PURPORT

The entanglement of the living entity in sense enjoyment is very nicely
explained in these verses. The word sarwatsara, meaning the progress of
time, is significant. Day after day, week after week, fortnight after fort-
