अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् | विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम् ||१८-१४||
adhiṣṭhānaṃ tathā kartā karaṇaṃ ca pṛthagvidham . vividhāśca pṛthakceṣṭā daivaṃ caivātra pañcamam ||18-14||
Chapter 18 · Verse 14
Moksha Sannyasa Yoga
मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
In plain words
Now listen to the characteristics of these five of which the body is the first. It is termed the support or the seat. The body is the seat of desire hatred happiness misery knowledge and the like.
Translation
18.14 The seat of action and likewise the agent, the various kinds of organs, the different and distinctive functions of vital air and also the fifth among these, Divinity.
Meaning
Now listen to the characteristics of these five of which the body is the first. It is termed the support or the seat. The body is the seat of desire hatred happiness misery knowledge and the like. The individual soul experiences through the body the pleasure and pain that arise through contact with matter. Egoism is the agent or the doer or the enjoyer. Nature does actions but through delusion the individual soul takes to himself the credit of their execution and therefore he is called the agent. Karta The enjoyer putting on the nature or properties of the limiting adjuncts with which he comes into contact. Karanam prithagvidham Various organs such as the organ of hearing by which the individual soul hears the sound etc. organs of knowledge and action and the mind. Daivam The presiding deity such as the Sun and the other gods by whose help the eye and the other organs perform their respective functions destiny. Cheshta Play of energy in the organs or the senses during the action. Absence of any of these factors will make action impossible.
Word by word
अधिष्ठानम् the seat or body तथा also कर्ता the doer करणम् the senses च and पृथग्विधम् of different विविधाः various च and पृथक् different चेष्टाः functions दैवम् the presiding deity च and एव even अत्र here पञ्चमम् the fifth.