The soul entangled through senses and mind can be liberated through Lord Caitanya's most generous gift of Krishna-prema.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.50 — August 3, 1975, Detroit 750803SB-DETROIT [28:59 Minutes] SB-06.01.50_750803SB-DETROIT Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [break] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] pañcabhiḥ kurute svārthān pañca vedātha pañcabhiḥ ekas tu ṣoḍaśena trīn svayaṁ saptadaśo 'śnute [SB 6.1.50] [break] [00:48] "The mind is the sixteenth item, and above the mind, the soul is the seventeenth item.
He is the living being; therefore he is one only. In cooperation with the other fifteen items along with the mind, the living entity is enjoying the material world alone. The instruments are the five sense organs, the five working organs and the five objects of the senses. Thus the mind is sixteen and the living entity himself is seventeen.
In this way the living entity is enjoying different situations of three types, namely happiness, distress or a mixture of both." Prabhupāda: pañcabhiḥ kurute svārthān pañca vedātha pañcabhiḥ ekas tu ṣoḍaśena trīn svayaṁ saptadaśo 'śnute [SB 6.1.50] So we are fallen into great ocean of nescience, covered. First of all the five senses, knowledge-acquiring senses, jñānendriya; and karmendriya, working senses, ten; and sense object... We have got eyes; therefore eyes are engaged for seeing something beautiful, rūpa. Rasa.
Rasa means taste. That is the business of the tongue. And to see beautiful thing, that is the business of the eyes. Rūpa, rasa, śabda. Śabda means sound.
The ear..., we have got ear. We want to hear nice songs, music, radio, television. So ear is there; the objects are there. Rūpa, rasa, śabda, gandha, smelling.
There is good odor also, bad odor also. Rūpa, rasa, gandha, śabda, sparśā. In this way we are entangled, completely under the laws of material nature. I am the spirit soul.
Saptadaśaḥ. I have given my power of attorney to the mind, and mind is creating different varieties of the śabda, sparśā..., rūpa, rasa, gandha, śabda, sparśā. In this way, life after life, as it is explained in the previous verse, yathājñas tamasā upāste vyaktam eva hi na veda pūrvam aparaṁ naṣṭa-janma-smṛtis tathā [SB 6.1.49] So naṣṭa-jan... I do not know.