स्वप्ने यथा पश्यति देहमीदृशंमनोरथेनाभिनिविष्टचेतन: । दृष्टश्रुताभ्यां मनसानुचिन्तयन्प्रपद्यते तत् किमपि ह्यपस्मृति: ॥ ४१ ॥
svapne yathā paśyati deham īdṛśaṁ manorathenābhiniviṣṭa-cetanaḥ dṛṣṭa-śrutābhyāṁ manasānucintayan prapadyate tat kim api hy apasmṛtiḥ
- svapne
- in a dream
- yathā
- as
- paśyati
- one sees
- deham
- the kind of body
- īdṛśam
- similarly
- manorathena
- by mental speculation
- abhiniviṣṭa
- is fully absorbed
- cetanaḥ
- he whose consciousness
- dṛṣṭa
- by whatever has been experienced by seeing with the eyes
- śrutābhyām
- and by hearing a description of something else
- manasā
- by the mind
- anucintayan
- thinking, feeling and willing
- prapadyate
- surrenders
- tat
- to that situation
- kim api
- what to speak of
- hi
- indeed
- apasmṛtiḥ
- experiencing forgetfulness of the present body
Having experienced a situation by seeing or hearing about it, one contemplates and speculates about that situation, and thus one surrenders to it, not considering his present body. Similarly, by mental adjustments one dreams at night of living under different circumstances, in different bodies, and forgets his actual position. Under this same process, one gives up his present body and accepts another [tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ].