Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 5.11.9
ఏకాదశాసన్మనసో హి వృత్తయ
ఆకూతయ: పఞ్చ ధియోఽభిమాన: ।
మాత్రాణి కర్మాణి పురం చ తాసాం
వదన్తి హైకాదశ వీర భూమీ: ॥ ౯ ॥
ekādaśāsan manaso hi vṛttaya
[ekaadashaasan manaso hi vrittaya]
ākūtayaḥ paṣca dhiyo ’bhimānaḥ
[aakootayah pashcha dhiyo ’bhimaanah]
mātrāṇi karmāṇi puraṁ ca tāsāṁ
[maatraani karmaani puram cha taasaam]
vadanti haikādaśa vīra bhūmīḥ
[vadanti haikaadasha veera bhoomeeh]
Word-for-word
ekādaśa
—
eleven
āsan
—
there are
manasaḥ
—
of the mind
hi
—
certainly
vṛttayaḥ
—
activities
ākūtayaḥ
—
senses of action
paṣca
—
five
dhiyaḥ
—
senses for gathering knowledge
abhimānaḥ
—
the false ego
mātrāṇi
—
different sense objects
karmāṇi
—
different material activities
puram ca
—
and the body, society, nation, family or place of nativity
tāsām
—
of those functions
vadanti
—
they say
ha
—
oh
ekādaśa
—
eleven
vīra
—
O hero
bhūmīḥ
—
fields of activity.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
ekādaśāsan manaso hi vṛttaya
ekādaśa
eleven
āsan
there are
manasaḥ
of the mind
hi
certainly
vṛttayaḥ
activities
ākūtayaḥ paṣca dhiyo ’bhimānaḥ
ākūtayaḥ
senses of action
paṣca
five
dhiyaḥ
senses for gathering knowledge
mātrāṇi karmāṇi puraṁ ca tāsāṁ
vadanti haikādaśa vīra bhūmīḥ
abhimānaḥ
the false ego
mātrāṇi
different sense objects
karmāṇi
different material activities
puram ca
and the body, society, nation, family or place of nativity
tāsām
of those functions
vadanti
they say
ha
oh
ekādaśa
eleven
vīra
O hero
bhūmīḥ
fields of activity.
There are five working senses and five knowledge-acquiring senses. There is also the false ego. In this way, there are eleven items for the mind’s functions. O hero, the objects of the senses [such as sound and touch], the organic activities [such as evacuation] and the different types of bodies, society, friendship and personality are considered by learned scholars the fields of activity 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.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
The eleven functions of the mind are the five knowledge senses, the five action senses and the ahaṅkāra. O King! They say that there are eleven objects for these senses: the five tan-mātras, the actions of the five action senses and the body.
This verse shows the conditions or vṛttis of the mind. There are eleven vṛttis: five actions senses (ākūtayaḥ), five knowledge senses (dhiyaḥ) and ahaṅkāra (abhimānaḥ). For these eleven there are eleven objects, of hero of knowledge (vīra)! The tan-mātras are the sense objects of the five knowledge senses. Actions such as elimination are the sense objects of the five action senses. The body (puram), house etc. are the objects of the ahaṅkāra.
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