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wait for touch? When do the ears become feverish in the absence of sound? Even the deaf ears are found living. When do the eyes perform arti (moving a lamp in a round manner) of features, of beauty? All these senses are inanimate, the material cause of the inanimate is inanimate, the inanimate has no wish, the inanimate has no wayit is always everywhere alike whether it is darkness or it is light.
Yes! Yes! The reception/cognition of the objects does occur through the medium of senses to the knower enamoured of sense-objects. The fact is that these senses are the windows, the body is the mansion, the purusa sitting in the mansion peeps out from different windows with the eyes of sensuality and keeps on receiving the objects.
The other thing is that sweet, sour, astringent etc.,
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