sā vāg yayā tasya guṇān gṛṇīte
sā vāg yayā tasya guṇān gṛṇīte
karau ca tat-karma-karau manaś ca |
smared vasantaṁ sthira-jaṅgameṣu
śṛṇoti tat-puṇya-kathāḥ sa karṇaḥ ||
śiras tu tasyobhaya-liṅgam ānamet
tad eva yat paśyati tad dhi cakṣuḥ |
aṅgāni viṣṇor atha taj-janānāṁ
pādodakaṁ yāni bhajanti nityam ||
(Śrīmad Bhāgavatam: 10.80.3–4)
“That by which his qualities are praised is speech. Further, those which perform actions for him are hands. Further, that which shall remember [his] dwelling in the stationary and the moving is a mind. That which listens to purifying narrations of him is an ear. Indeed that which shall bow to both images of him is a head. That which beholds specifically those [i.e., images of him] is certainly an eye. Likewise, those which regularly honor the foot-wash of Viṣṇu and his devotees are limbs.”