Organs of Action

The five karmendriyas of Samkhya and yogic cosmology, the faculties of action through which the self acts on the world: vak (speech), pani (the hands, grasping), pada (the feet, locomotion), payu (excretion) and upastha (procreation). Belongs here: one of these five named faculties of doing. Does not belong here: the five jnanendriyas, the organs of perception through which the self receives the world, listed under Organs of Perception, and the antahkarana, the internal instrument of mind, ego and intellect, listed under Internal Instrument.