The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c5.s2.t2.5

c5.s2.t2.5

³⁰ P. 14, 5: “Question: but how is it possible to transfer to the inner “soul, which is no object, the qualities of objects? For everyone transfers “[only] to one object standing before him another object: and of the “inner soul thou maintainest that it is cut off from the idea of ‘Thou’ “[not-I] and is no object [I read with Govinda: *aviṣayatvam*]?—Answer: “Not in every sense is it non-object; for it is the object of perception “of the ‘I’” [*asmat-pratyaya-viṣaya*; taken strictly and according to p. 78, 6, cf. 73, 5. 672, 1, not the *sākshin*, but only the *kartar*, that is, the individual soul already endowed with objective qualities, is *ahampratyaya-viṣaya*]; “and the [whole] assumption of an inner soul rests “on this, that it is not transcendent (*aparokṣa*). It is also not necessary “that the object, to which we transfer another object, should stand before “us; as, for instance, when simple people transfer to space (*ākāśa*),