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all the senses such as eyes, ears, touch of skins etc. become extinct or vanish. These senses function only up to the time life remains in the body This life is consciousness. Absense of consciousness is absense of Soul, absense of life. Even after death the material body remains but because consciousness is no longer there, it is called lifeless and without any perception or feeling because Soul is no longer in it.
Suppose there is a steam Engine with all its paraphernalia complete in working order but if steam does not pass through it it remains inactive; and as soon as the steam comes in it, duely, everything becomes active. Similarly an electric appliance is lifeless or inactive without the electricity and becomes operative and moving only as soon as, the electric energy is allowed to pass in it duely. While the steam in the steam engine or Electricity in the Electrical appliance continues to pass through it, it works on; as soon as the steam or the electricity is cut off the machines stop functioning. In a similar way the idea of Soul can be conceived as the sole cause of consciouness & activity or life in the body of a living being.
