The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s6.t3.8

c8.s6.t3.8

¹¹⁶ p. 715, 4; above (p. 310 ff.) on the other hand the possibility of action throughout the body is disputed, not for the soul of atomic size, but for the minute soul (which in the state of *Saṃsāra* has the same size as the *Buddhi*, *i.e.*, the *Manas*). If we disregard this and ask what in the strict logic of our system is the nature of the reciprocal action of the minute soul, “large as the point of an awl,” and the body, we have as answer that it is doubtless brought about by the *Prāṇas* which stand in the middle between soul and body; the nature of this connection however *e.g.* of the function or faculty of sight with *Manas* and soul on the one hand, and with the Ego on the other, is not cleared up.