Similarly, Soul, though without attributes himself, has his existence proved by the acts which the body does when it receives his reflection. Although the Soul is not subject to changes of any kind, and is the active principle that sets Nature in motion, yet entering a body which is united with the senses of knowledge and action. He considers all the acts of those senses as his own. The five senses of knowledge beginning with the ear, and those of action beginning with speech, uniting with the qualities of Goodness and Darkness and Ignorance become engaged in numerous objects. Individual Soul imagines that it is he who does the deeds of his life and that the senses of knowledge and action belong to him, although in reality he has no senses. Indeed, though having no body, he imagines that he has a body. Though shorn of qualities, he considers himself as endued therewith, the though above Time, imagines himself to be under Time's control.
स लिङ्गान्तरमासाद्य प्राकृतं लिङ्गमव्रणः। व्रणद्वाराण्यधिष्ठाय कर्मण्यात्मनि मन्यते॥ श्रोत्रादीनि तु सर्वाणि पञ्चकर्मेन्द्रियाण्यथ। वागादीनि प्रवर्तन्ते गुणेष्विह गुणैः सह॥ अहमेतानि वै सर्वं मय्यतानीन्द्रियाणि ह। निरिन्द्रियो हि मन्येत व्रणवानस्मि निर्बणः॥ अलिङ्गो लिङ्गमात्मानमकालः कालमात्मनः।