Karmendriya
कर्मेन्द्रियनपुंसकलिङ्ग (neutro) · कर्मन् (karman — ação) + इन्द्रिय (indriya — faculdade)
karmendriya
Mind and Psychology
AI translationMotor faculty; one of the five motor indriyas
Karmendriyas are the five faculties of action: vāk (speech), pāṇi (hand, to manipulate), pāda (foot, to move), pāyu (excretion), upastha (procreation). Along with the five jñānendriyas, they compose the ten indriyas. They are subtle — not identical to the visible organs, but to the functional capacity that operates through them. The distinction indriya/organ is important: a paraplegic has the organs, but the karmendriya of pāda does not operate.
Occurrence in the corpus
॥ ५ ॥ 【भाष्यम्】 यत्त्व नात्मज्ञः चोदितं कर्म नारभते इति तदस देवेत्याह कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन् इन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः उच्यते
|| 5 || 【bhāṣyam】 yattva nātmajñaḥ coditaṃ karma nārabhate iti tadasa devetyāha karmendriyāṇi saṃyamya āste manasā smaran indriyārthānvimūḍhātmā mithyācāraḥ ucyate
— Bhagavad Gītā Bhāṣya →Using this in academic work? Get formal citation
Vishva Vidya (2026). Karmendriya (कर्मेन्द्रिय). Vishva Vidya — Vedanta. https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/karmendriya
Vishva Vidya. "Karmendriya (कर्मेन्द्रिय)." Vishva Vidya — Vedanta, January 1, 2026, https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/karmendriya.
Vishva Vidya. "Karmendriya (कर्मेन्द्रिय)." Vishva Vidya — Vedanta, January 1, 2026. https://vedanta.com.br/en/glossary/karmendriya.
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