Sayings of Ramakrishna 20

The human body is like a boiling pot, and the mind and the senses are like water, rice, or potato in it. 

Put the pot with its ingredients on the fire; it will be so hot as to burn your finger when you touch it. But the heat does not belong to the pot, nor anything contained in it, but is in the fire. 

So it is the fire of Brahman in man that causes the mind and the senses to perform their functions, and when that fire ceases to act, the senses also, or the organs, stop.