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वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः। इन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना।।10.22।।

vedānāṁ sāma-vedo ’smi devānām asmi vāsavaḥ indriyāṇāṁ manaśh chāsmi bhūtānām asmi chetanā

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 10, Verse 22
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Among the Vedas, I am the Sama-Veda; among the gods, I am Vasava; among the senses, I am the mind; and among living beings, I am intelligence.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: among the Vedas, he is the Sama Veda, among the gods, Indra, among the senses, the mind, among living beings, consciousness, continuing the pattern, this time reaching into subtler, less physical categories.

In life: the same discerning attention that finds the standout in a physical category can also be turned toward subtler things, which specific thought or feeling actually carries the essential meaning of a larger experience.

Teaching: apply the same discerning attention to a recent experience, notice which specific thought or feeling within it actually carried the essential meaning of the whole, rather than treating the experience as one undifferentiated blur.

vedānāmamongst the Vedas
sāma-vedaḥthe Sāma Veda
asmiI am
devānāmof all the celestial gods
asmiI am
vāsavaḥ̣Indra
indriyāṇāmof amongst the senses
manaḥthe mind
caand
asmiI am
bhūtānāmamongst the living beings
asmiI am
chetanāconsciousness

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
10.22 वेदानाम् among the Vedas? सामवेदः the Sama Veda? अस्मि (I) am? देवानाम् among the gods? अस्मि (I) am? वासवः Indra? इन्द्रियाणाम् among the senses? मनः mind? च and? अस्मि (I) am? भूतानाम् among living beings? अस्मि (I) am? चेतना intelligence.Commentary Vasava is Indra.Gods Such as Rudras? Adityas.Indriyas The five JnanaIndriyas or organs of knowledge? viz.? ear? skin? eye? tongue and nose and the five KarmaIndriyas or organs of action? viz.? speech? hands? feet? genitals and anus. The mind is regarded as the eleventh sense. As the senses cannot function without the help of the mind? the mind is regarded as the chief among the senses.Chetana Intelligence is that state of intellect which is manifest in the aggregate of the body and the senses.That which illumines all? from the intellect down to the grossest object? is called Chetana.