Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3332

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Rajoguṇa was born of Kriyāśakti. The five organs of senses, ear, eye, nose, tongue and skin and the five organs of work, hand, leg, speech, organ of excretion and the organ of sex and the five breaths, Prāṇa, Apāna, Vyāna, Samāna and Udāna are the offsprings of Rājasa. These are the forms of Kriyāśakti. These are controlled by the favourable activity of Cicchakti. The five gods controlling the sense-organs like Vāyu, Sūrya, Pāśi and Aśvinīdevas and the four gods controlling intelligence, conscience etc. like Candra, Brahmā, Rudra, and Kṣetrajña and the mind are ten Tattvas (Principles) born of sāttvika empowered with Jñānaśakti. All the Tattvas were made into five basic elements through the process of Pañcīkaraṇa and the Brahmāṇḍa originated from it.