ज्ञानशक्तिः क्रियाशक्तिर्बुद्धिः प्राणश्च तैजसौ ।
श्रोत्रं त्वग्घ्राणदृग्जिह्वा वाग्दोर्मेढ्राङ्घ्रिपायवः ॥३१॥
taijasÄt tu vikurvÄṇÄd
indriyÄṇi daÅ›Äbhavan
jñÄna-Å›aktiḥ kriyÄ-Å›aktir
buddhiḥ prÄṇaÅ› ca taijasau
Å›rotraá¹ tvag-ghrÄṇa-dá¹›g-jihvÄ
vÄg-dor-meá¸hrÄá¹…ghri-pÄyavaḥ
taijasÄt - by the passionate egoism; tu - but; vikurvÄṇÄt - transformation of; indriyÄṇi - the senses; daÅ›a - ten; abhavan - generated; jñÄna-Å›aktiḥ - the five senses for acquiring knowledge; kriyÄ-Å›aktiḥ - the five senses of activities; buddhiḥ - intelligence; prÄṇaḥ - the living energy; ca - also; taijasau - all products of the mode of passion; Å›rotram - the sense for hearing; tvak - the sense for touching; ghrÄṇa - the sense for smelling; dá¹›k - the sense for seeing; jihvÄḥ - the sense for tasting; vÄk - the sense for speaking; doḥ - the sense for handling; meá¸hra - the genitals; aá¹…ghri - the legs; pÄyavaḥ - the sense for evacuating.
By further transformation of the mode of passion, the sense organs like the ear, skin, nose, eyes, tongue, mouth, hands, genitals, legs, and the outlet for evacuating, together with intelligence and living energy, are all generated.
The living condition in material existence depends more or less on one’s intelligence and powerful living energy. Intelligence to counteract the hard struggle for existence is assisted by the senses for acquiring knowledge, and the living energy maintains himself by manipulating the active organs, like the hands and legs. But on the whole, the struggle for existence is an exertion of the mode of passion. Therefore all the sense organs, headed by intelligence and the living energy, prÄṇa, are different products and by-products of the second mode of nature, called passion. This mode of passion, however, is the product of the air element, as described before.
