Sanskrit
श्रोत्रं चक्षुः स्पर्शनं च रसनं घ्राणमेव च । अधिष्ठाय मनश्चायं विषयानुपसेवते ॥
śrotraṃ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṃ ca rasanaṃ ghrāṇam eva ca adhiṣṭhāya manaś cāyaṃ viṣayān upasevate
Translation
Enshrined in the ear, the eye, the touch, the taste and the smell, and in the mind also, He enjoyeth the objects of the senses.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The frame narrows further, from the general fact of carrying senses across bodies to the moment-by-moment mechanics within a single body: the self takes its post in ear, eye, skin, tongue, and nose, with mind as a sixth, and from that seat enjoys sense-objects. This verse is descriptive rather than prescriptive — the text is not yet telling the reader what to do with this fact, that comes in verses 10-11’s contrast between the deluded and the wisdom-eyed — it is simply establishing the architecture of ordinary embodied experience so the next verse can ask who actually perceives it clearly.