The Upanishads - Mandhata Global

through its own consciousness and rests in the
Supreme Self (akasa) that is in the heart. When
this being absorbs them, it is called svapiti. Then
the organ of smell is absorbed, the organ of speech
is absorbed, the eye is absorbed, the ear is
absorbed and the mind is absorbed."
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When the self remains in the dream state, these are its
achievements (results of past action): It then becomes a
great king, as it were; or a noble brahmin, as it were; or
attains, as it were, high or low states. Even as a great
king, taking with him his retinue of citizens, moves
about, according to his pleasure, within his own
domain, so does the self, taking with it the organs,
move about according to its pleasure, in the body.
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Next, when the self goes into deep sleep-when it does
not know anything-it returns along the seventy-two
thousand nerves called hita, which extend from the
heart throughout the whole body and remains in the
body. As a baby or an emperor or a noble brahmin
lives, having reached the summit of happiness, so does
the self rest.
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As the spider moves along the thread it produces, or as
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