1 Gita Sloka Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 9

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What does the jivatman do with his senses?

Jivatman Defined 7-9

1 Gita Sloka  Every Day - Chapter 15 - Purushottama Yoga - Sloka 9

Shrotram chakshuh sparshanam cha rasanam ghranameva cha I

Adhistaya manah cha ayam vishayan upasevate II sloka 9

श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च I 

अधिष्ठाय मनः च अयम् विषयान् उपसेवते II श्लोक 9

Presiding over the ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and smellm as also the mind, he experiences objects.

All the five senses serve as five different messengers to the indweller in the body. If a man be shut up in a cell with no outlet whatsoever he would perish deprived of air, water, food and light. But the jivatman residing in the fort of his body gets all his requirements through the five senses. Sound the adjunct of akasa comes to him through the ear. The eye functions to bring the message of light and form, the adjunct of  fire. The sense of touch which is the adjunct of air, pervades all over his body intimating him of heat and cold in the environment. Taste is the adjunct of water and the tongue serves him in this respect. The nose conveys to him the sense of smell, it being the adjunct of earth. And mind is the interpreter of the data brought in by all these senses. The jivatman is cherished by all these six instruments, keeping him in contact with the external world.

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