Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.157

c16.157

It is also held that both the external and internal organs thus operating in perception are themselves insentient principles, and, as such, are incapable of conscious apprehension of objects. It is the *Purusha* that makes them apprehend objects. Thus, according to Sāṁkhya-Yoga, perception implicates two epistemic factors, (1) the existence of an extra-mental object, and (2) the existence of the Purusha (*Self*).