Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 15: The Supreme Person

Bhagavad Gita 15.9

śrotraṃ cakṣuḥ sparśanaṃ ca rasanaṃ ghrāṇameva ca | adhiṣṭhāya manaścāyaṃ viṣayānupasevate ||

Presiding over hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell, and over the mind as well, it experiences the objects of the senses.

Modern context

The soul presides over the five senses and the mind and through them experiences the world. It is like a person in a house with five windows and a central room. The windows let in sights, sounds, smells; the central room gathers and makes sense of them; and the resident enjoys it all. The resident is not the windows, though without them it would see nothing.