Shloka 51
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
शब्दादीनामवाप्त्यर्थं बुद्धियुक्तानि वक्ष्यते ।
पादौ पायुरुपस्थश्च हस्तौ वाक् पञ्चमी भवेत् ॥
śabdādīnāmavāptyarthaṃ buddhiyuktāni vakṣyate / pādau pāyurupasthaśca hastau vāk pañcamī bhavet
Diz-se que eles estão ligados ao intelecto (buddhi) para a obtenção do som e dos demais objetos dos sentidos. (Os cinco órgãos de ação são:) os dois pés, o ânus, os genitais, as duas mãos e a fala como o quinto.
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FAQs
Action is not blind: the text ties sense-acquisition to buddhi (discernment), implying responsibility. Since karmendriyas execute impulses, ethical life depends on aligning action-organs with discriminative intelligence.
Sarga: detailing the functional anatomy of the created being (sense and action faculties).
The pairing of cognition (buddhi) with acquisition suggests an inner ritual: offerings of perception and action are to be ‘consecrated’ by discernment, otherwise they become binding karma.