Chapter 15: Purushottama-yoga: / Verse 9

Krishna first explained how the jiva imbibes various properties from Nature’s elements and infuses them into the embodied being. He also explained how the jiva, in the end, takes away these properties, rendering the body non-functional. He now details how inhering in the body, the jiva experiences endless objects and interacts with them, generating knowledge and memory, which distinguish the human from all the rest.

It presides over all the sensory perceptions giving rise to sound, touch, taste, colour and smell, through the ear, skin, tongue, eye and nose. It also presides over the inner organ called the mind, thereby experiencing multiple world-objects. But for the Soul, neither embodiment nor the large variety of outer and inner experiences would have been possible.

Experiencing is a power of the spiritual presence, the Soul. In fact, the body with all its organs is a medium the Soul has created to undergo experiences.