388 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 5, Ch. 11

evacuation] and the different types of bodies, society, friendship
and personality are considered by learned scholars the fields of ac-
tivity 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

TRaTH ETAT
Ranaahtiaeiem |

uaz 86 T
TAME BEAR ATE lel

gandha@krti-sparsa-rasa-sravamsi
visarga-raty-arty-abhijalpa-silpah

ekddasam svikaranam mameti
Sayyam aham dvadasam eka adhuh

gandha—smell; dkrti—form: sparsa—touch: rasa—taste; Sra-
vamsi—and sound: visarga—evacuating: rati—sexual intercourse;
arti—movement: abhijalpa—speaking: silpah—grasping or releasing:
ekadasam—eleventh: svikaranam—accepting as: mama—mine: iti—
thus: Ssayyam—this body: aham—l: dvadasam—twelfth: eke—some:
aGhuh—have said.

TRANSLATION

Sound, touch, form, taste and smell are the objects of the five
knowledge-acquiring senses. Speech, touch, movement, evacua-
tion and sexual intercourse are the objects of the working senses.
