Shloka 10
Varāha-avatāra: Viṣṇu’s subterranean intervention and the cosmic nāda (Śānti-parva 202)
यथा च राज्ञा बहवो हाामात्या: पृथक् प्रमाणं प्रवदन्ति युक्ता: । तद्वच्छरीरेषु भवन्ति पठच ज्ञानैकदेश: परम: स तेभ्य:
yathā ca rājñā bahavo hāmātyāḥ pṛthak pramāṇaṃ pravadanti yuktāḥ | tadvac charīreṣu bhavanti pañca jñānaikadeśaḥ paramaḥ sa tebhyaḥ ||
毗湿摩说：“譬如国王任命众多大臣分掌不同职事，各自分别奏报本司之事实与方略；同样，在此身中，五种知根各守其有限之境，分别将所缘之境呈于居王位的理智。又如国王胜于群臣，统摄诸根的主导原则——由理智收摄并统御的‘知’——亦胜于那五根。”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The senses provide only partial, domain-specific information, like ministers reporting from separate departments; the intellect (and the knowledge it organizes) is the higher governing faculty that should direct and integrate sensory inputs rather than be ruled by them.
In Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma instructs Yudhiṣṭhira using a political analogy: ministers correspond to the five sense-organs, while the king corresponds to the intellect that receives their reports and stands above them as the guiding authority.