Interpretation

The enumeration of the field (the body-mind complex) begins. The components are: mahabhutas (the five great elements: earth, water, fire, air, space), ahankara (ego-sense), buddhi (intellect), avyaktam (the unmanifest — the primordial matter from which all emerges), indriyani-dasha (ten senses — five organs of knowledge: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin; and five organs of action: hands, feet, speech, organs of procreation and elimination), ekam cha (and the mind — the eleventh), and pancha indriya-gocharah (the five sense objects: form, sound, smell, taste, touch). This is the complete Sankhya catalogue of the material universe.