Indriya
इन्द्रियनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neutro) · इन्द्र (indra — senhor) + य प्रत्यय
indriya
Mind and Psychology
AI translationSensory or motor faculty
Indriyas are the ten faculties: five of knowledge (jñānendriya — sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) and five of action (karmendriya — speech, hand, foot, excretion, procreation). They are not the physical organs, but the subtle capacities that operate through them. In Vedānta, the indriyas are instruments of ātman, not ātman — the blind person does not cease to be who they are for lacking the faculty of vision.
Occurrence in the corpus
॥ २६ ॥ 【भाष्यम्】 श्रोत्रादीनि इन्द्रियाणि अन्ये योगिनः संयमाग्निषु प्रतीन्द्रियं संयमो भिद्यते इति बहुवचनम् संयमा एव अग्नयः तेषु जुह्वति इन्द्रिय संयममेव कुर्वन्ति इत्यर्थः शब्दादीन् विषयान् अन्ये इन्द्रियाग्निषु इन्द्रियाण्येव अग्नयः तेषु इन्द्रियाग्निषु जुह्वति श्रोत्रादिभि रविरुद्धविषयग्रहणं होमं मन्यन्ते
|| 26 || 【bhāṣyam】 śrotrādīni indriyāṇi anye yoginaḥ saṃyamāgniṣu pratīndriyaṃ saṃyamo bhidyate iti bahuvacanam saṃyamā eva agnayaḥ teṣu juhvati indriya saṃyamameva kurvanti ityarthaḥ śabdādīn viṣayān anye indriyāgniṣu indriyāṇyeva agnayaḥ teṣu indriyāgniṣu juhvati śrotrādibhi raviruddhaviṣayagrahaṇaṃ homaṃ manyante
— Bhagavad Gītā Bhāṣya →Using this in academic work? Get formal citation
Vishva Vidya (2026). Indriya (इन्द्रिय). Vishva Vidya — Vedanta. https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/indriya
Vishva Vidya. "Indriya (इन्द्रिय)." Vishva Vidya — Vedanta, January 1, 2026, https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/indriya.
Vishva Vidya. "Indriya (इन्द्रिय)." Vishva Vidya — Vedanta, January 1, 2026. https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/indriya.
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