Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 19


Sanskrit:

एवं गदि: कर्म गतिर्विसर्गोघ्राणो रसो द‍ृक् स्पर्श: श्रुतिश्च ।सङ्कल्पविज्ञानमथाभिमान:सूत्रं रज:सत्त्वतमोविकार: ॥ १९ ॥

ITRANS:

evaṁ gadiḥ karma gatir visargoghrāṇo raso dṛk sparśaḥ śrutiś casaṅkalpa-vijñānam athābhimānaḥsūtraṁ rajaḥ-sattva-tamo-vikāraḥ

Translation:

The functions of the working senses — the organ of speech, the hands, the legs, the genitals and the anus — and the functions of the knowledge-acquiring senses — the nose, tongue, eyes, skin and ears — along with the functions of the subtle senses of mind, intelligence, consciousness and false ego, as well as the function of the subtle pradhāna and the interaction of the three modes of material nature — all these should be understood as My materially manifest form.

Purport:

By the word gadi, or “speech,” the Lord concludes His discussion about His manifestation as Vedic vibrations and describes the functions of the other working senses, along with the knowledge-acquiring senses, the subtle functions of consciousness, pradhāna and the interaction of the three modes of material nature. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person sees the entire material world as a manifestation of the Lord’s potencies. There is therefore no legitimate scope for material sense gratification, because everything is an expansion from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and belongs to Him. One who can understand the expansion of the Lord within subtle and gross material manifestations gives up his desire to live in this world. In the spiritual world everything is eternal, full of bliss and knowledge. The exclusive feature of the material world is that here the living entity dreams that he is lord. A sane person, giving up this hallucination, finds no attractive features in the kingdom of māyā and therefore returns home, back to Godhead.