10.22

Sanskrit

वेदानां सामवेदोऽस्मि देवानामस्मि वासवः । इन्द्रियाणां मनश्चास्मि भूतानामस्मि चेतना ॥ २२ ॥

vedānāṃ sāmavedo'smi devānām asmi vāsavaḥ indriyāṇāṃ manaś cāsmi bhūtānām asmi cetanā

Translation

Of the Vedas I am the Sâma-Veda; I am Vâsava of the Shining Ones; and of the senses I am the mind; I am of living beings the intelligence.

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

Continues the category-plus-best-member pattern into scripture and psychology: among the Vedas, the Sama-Veda; among the senses, the mind; among living beings, cetanā — consciousness itself. That last clause is a step up in abstraction from the others: not a best example within a class, but the very faculty of awareness by which any of the other examples could be recognized at all.