Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 14

अधिष्ठानं तथा कर्ता करणं च पृथग्विधम् । विविधाश्च पृथक्चेष्टा दैवं चैवात्र पञ्चमम्

adhiṣṭhānaṃ tathā kartā karaṇaṃ ca pṛthagvidham | vividhāśca pṛthakceṣṭā daivaṃ caivātra pañcamam

Translation

The seat and actor and the various organs, and the several functions of various sorts, and the Divinity also, the fifth among these;

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

adhiṣṭhānam

the body

tathā

also

kartā

the doer

karaṇam

organ

ca

and

pṛthagvidham

severally various

vividhāḥ

various

ca

and

pṛthak

several

ceṣṭāḥ

activities

daivam

divinity

ca

and

eva

even

atra

here

pañcamam

fifth

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

The seat: the body which is the seat of desire, hatred, happiness, misery, knowledge and the like. Actor: the enjoyer, partaking of the character of the upādhi with which it may be associated. The various organs: such as the sense of hearing. Functions: of the air (vāyu), such as outbreathing and inbreathing. Divinity: such as the Āditya and other Gods by whose aid the eye and other organs discharge their functions.