। ॥ ५४३ ॥
In plain words
When scripture talks as though the senses were conscious, what it is really placing there is their presiding deity — a transferred way of speaking. It never says outright that the sense-organs themselves are sentient.
Close to the Sanskrit
By scripture it is the presiding deity alone that is figuratively spoken of in the sense-organs; but sentience of the sense-organs is not directly declared.