यथा सुषुप्त: पुरुषो विश्वं पश्यति चात्मनि । आत्मानमेकदेशस्थं मन्यते स्वप्न उत्थित: ॥ ५३ ॥ एवं जागरणादीनि जीवस्थानानि चात्मन: । मायामात्राणि विज्ञाय तद् द्रष्टारं परं स्मरेत् ॥ ५४ ॥
yatha susuptah puruso visvam pasyati catmani atmanam eka-desa-stham manyate svapna utthitah evam jagaranadini jiva-sthanani catmanah maya-matrani vijnaya tad-drastaram param smaret
- yatha
- just as
- susuptah
- sleeping
- purusah
- a person
- visvam
- the whole universe
- pasyati
- perceives
- ca
- also
- atmani
- in himself
- atmanam
- himself
- eka-desa-stham
- lying down in one place
- manyate
- he considers
- svapne
- in the dreaming condition
- utthitah
- waking up
- evam
- in this way
- jagarana-adini
- the states of wakefulness and so on
- jiva-sthanani
- the living entity’s different conditions of existence
- ca
- also
- atmanah
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- maya-matrani
- the exhibitions of the illusory potency
- vijnaya
- knowing
- tat
- of them
- drastaram
- the creator or seer of all such conditions
- param
- the Supreme
- smaret
- one should always remember
When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps even the entire universe, although they are far away. Sometimes when one awakens from a dream he sees that he is in a human form, lying in his bed in one place. Then he sees himself, in terms of various conditions, as belonging to a particular nationality, family and so on. All the conditions of deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness are but energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should always remember the original creator of these conditions, the Supreme Lord, who is unaffected by them.