The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c8.s6.t4.8

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for if it were no more than this it would not be specially mentioned Mund. 2, 1, 3 in addition to Manas and Indriyas. But could it not be the result of the united action of these eleven organs, which produce the life of the body in something the same way as eleven birds shut up in a cage raise it in the air, when they fly upwards? ¹¹⁸ To this is to be replied, that the organs cannot possibly produce the phenomenon of life, because it is absolutely heterogeneous from hearing, etc. (p. 719, 4). It is rather included in the primacy of the Prâna as taught by the Scripture, that the other organs are subordinated to it as qualities (guna) [p. 719, 6. 12; without prejudice to their original essential difference from it; of this below].