Vedantasara - Verse 125

Sanskrit

अपरश्चार्वाकः “ते ह प्राणाः प्रजापतिं पितरमेत्योचुः” (छा उ ५.१.७) इत्यादिश्रुतेरिन्द्रियाणामभावे शरीरचलनाभावात्काणोऽहं बधिरोऽहमित्याद्यनुभवाच्चेन्द्रियाण्यात्मेति वदति

Swami Nikhilananda's Translation

Another school of Charvakas speaks of the sense-organs as the Self, on account of such Sruti passages as, “The sense-organs went to their father, Prajapati, and said,” (Ch. Up. V-1-7), owing also to the fact that the movement of the body ceases when the organs cease to work, and further because of such experiences as, “I am blind of one eye,” “I am deaf,” etc.,

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