The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

The objects perceived by the dreamer, not usually seen
in the waking state, owe their existence to the peculiar
conditions under which the cognizer i.e. the mind
functions for the time being, as with those residing in
heaven. The dreamer, associating himself with the
dream conditions, perceives those objects, even as a
man, well instructed here, goes from one place to
another and sees the peculiar objects belonging to those
places.
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In dreams, what is imagined within the mind is illusory
and what is cognized outside by the mind, real; but
truly, both are known to be unreal. Similarly, in the
waking state, what is imagined within by the mind is
illusory and what is cognized outside by the mind, real;
but both should be held, on rational grounds, to be
unreal.
11
If the objects perceived in both waking and
dreaming are illusory, who perceives all these
objects and who, again, imagines them?
12
It is the self-luminous Atman who, through the power of
Its own maya, imagines in Itself by Itself all the objects
that the subject experiences within and without. It alone
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