Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 6.1.10

6.1.10

śrotra m̐ hoccakrāma tatsaṃvatsaraṃ proṣyāgatyovāca kathamaśakata madṛte jīvitumiti te hocuryathābadhirā aśṛṇvantaḥ śrotreṇa prāṇantaḥ prāṇena vadanto vācā paśyantaścakṣuṣā vidvām̐so manasā prajāyamānā retasaivamajīviṣmeti praviveśa ha śrotram

The ear went out. After staying a whole year out it came back and said, 'How did you manage to live without me?' They said, 'We lived just as deaf people do, without hearing through the ear, but living through the vital force, speaking through the organ of speech, seeing through the eye, knowing through the mind and having children through the organ of generation.' So the ear entered.