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(1658) Consciousness belongs to something different from the sense-organs, because there is remembrance even when they stop functioning and there is non-cognition even when they are functioning, as it belongs to one who cognises through the five windows.
(1659) He who perceiving an object by one organ, reacts to it by another, is certainly different (or distinct) from them, as the man who perceives an object through the window in the east and reacts (acts upon it) through another is different from them.
(1660) It must be regarded as being over and above (i. e. distinct from) organs, because it remembers what has been cognised by all the sense-organs, as a man cognising all the cognisables (colour, etc.) is different from the five who have knowledge severally of the cognisables.
(1661) The knowledge of a child (must be) preceded by another knowledge, because it is knowledge, as the knowledge of a youth is preceded by that of a child and that is over and above the body.
(1662) The first desire for breast-feeding must be preceded by another desire for nourishment because it is an experience, like a desire of the present and that is over and above the body.
(1663) The body of a child imust be preceded by another body, because it has sense-organs, etc., as a youth's body is preceded by (that of) a child. He, to whom the body belongs, is the embodied one (Jiva, Atman).
(1664) The pleasure, etc. of a child must be preceded by other pleasure, pain, etc., like the pleasure of the present, because it is of the nature of experience and the soul is the possessor of this experience.
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