The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s5.t2.15

c8.s5.t2.15

“the carpenter is, in respect of various kinds of work such as “fitting, etc. with regard to certain tools such as his axe, etc., “an agent, but a non-agent so far as his body goes; so too “the soul in its exertions with regard to the organs, *Manas*, “etc. is an agent, but a non-agent in its own self. The soul “as opposed to the carpenter has not like him limbs with “which it could take up the organs, *Manas*, etc. or lay them “aside, as the carpenter with his hands takes up and lays “aside his tools [for all these organs belong to the *Upâdhis* “which are attributed to the soul only by Ignorance].”