The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s1.t3.4

c8.s1.t3.4

“Now if it be said that perception is a quality of the body because it persists as long as the body, the method of replying has already been indicated; perception continues as long “as the means e.g. the lamp, exists, and continues no longer “when it does not exist; but from this cannot be concluded “that perception is only a quality of the lamp; just in the “same way because perception continues as long as the body “exists and ceases when it ceases, it does not need to be a “quality of the body; for the body like the lamp serves only “as a means. Moreover the help of the body is not un- “conditionally necessary in perception, for while the body lies “motionless in sleep we perceive many things.—Therefore the “existence of a soul persisting beyond the body is indisputable” (p. 955--957).