Acting through the senses, the mind, and the understanding which is the seventh, all of which are inactive and have no self-consciousness, the Soul discovers the objects like a lamp showing all objects around it by shedding its rays through an opening in the covering.
इन्द्रियैस्तु प्रदीपार्थं कुरुते बुद्धिसप्तमैः। निर्विचेष्टैरजानद्भिः परमात्मा प्रदीपवत्॥