Commentary on the Panchadasi: 12. Swami Krishnananda.

===================================================================================== Thursday 31, July 2025, 19:00. Books: Upanishads. Commentary on the Panchadasi:12. Swami Krishnananda. Discourse 3 Chapter 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Mantras 14-27 Mantram - 19 to22. Post-12. ====================================================================================== Mantram - 19: "Satvamssiḥ pancabhi steṣamm kramad dhin driya pancakam, śrotra tvagakṣi rasana ghraṇakhyam upajaate (19)." The sense organs, the sensations of knowledge—hearing, touching, seeing, tasting and smelling, which are the prominent activities of our sense organs—are created out of the sattva portions of prakriti. Through tamas, the five elements are created. Through the sattva guna of prakriti, independently and individually taken, the sense organs are created as mentioned, and they are the reason for our perception of the world by hearing, by touching, by seeing, by tasting and by sm...