The entire content of this mail is from Shri V N Gopala Desikan's Srimad Bhagavad Gita, published by Vishishtadvaita Research Centre, Chennai and The Bhagavad Gita by Swami Chidbhavananda published by Ramakrishna Mission
Components if Karma - 13-16
1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 18 - Moksha Sanyasa Yoga - Sloka 14
The five factors are expounded as below:
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Adhishtanam tatha karta karanam cha pruthak vidham I
Vividhah cha pruthak cheshtah daivam cha eva panchamam II sloka 14
अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता कर्णं च पृथक् विधं I
विविधाः च पृथक् चेष्टाः दैवं च एव पञ्चमं
The body, the agent, the various senses, the different functions of various sorts, and the presiding deity also, the fifth.
The five causes are 1)body, 2) doer, ie. the jivatma, 3) the five senses of action - the karma indriyas and the mind, 4) the five fold prana moving about in the body as prana, vyana, apana, samana and udana (mentioned in Chapter 15 sloka 14) and 5) the supreme Brahman.
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