[paragraph continues] (the gross body) is inert? If (it be said that) a new dream-body fit for such activity springs up, wherefrom does it arise, since the means of its generation [**] is absent? If it be a product of the imagination, then how is it that, after the experience of sexual pleasure in a dream, the effect thereof is (actually) visible in the body that is inert? (76).

"It is with this (the gross body) that he weeps from fear, talks, laughs and exults." It [*+] surely follows from this that the inner self does not abruptly sever its connection with the body during dream, although that body is inert; but, with the help of the subtle body, it creates again, in subtle form, those objects

which it had previously [**] experienced, such as the body, woman, horse, tiger, locality, etc. (77).

The second state, that of dream, is known by experience to be midway between waking and sleep. In that state the individual, having withdrawn all the senses, has only the light of the self remaining. The gross body having been laid down on a suitable bed, the inner self, experiencing the objects it likes in their subtle form, goes about as it pleases in the same manner. [*+] (78).

Preserving the body lying in bed by means of the life-forces now reduced to mere breath, lest it assume the form of a corpse and become food for dogs, etc., it creates, in dream, by its own power, horses, chariots, rivers, ponds, playgrounds, companions, women, sons, friends,--all by way of imitation. [**] (79).

It creates elephants, tigers, robbers, enemies, snakes and monkeys. Sometimes it is playing with beloved damsels. Sometimes it laughs and sports. Sometimes it eats delicious food. At other times it is afraid of its kith and kin, because it has become an outcaste. And at other times it runs away for fear of tigers, etc. or is caught by them and wails. (80).

Whatever object is perceived, it comes into existence then and there by the ignorance of the true nature of the self that is in it. Its manifestation is like the unreal appearance of false silver owing to one's not recognising the mother-of-pearl, or of the mirage owing to one's not recognising the sun's rays, or of the serpent by one's not recognising the rope,--such appearance giving rise to joy or fear, only for an instant. Hence all this universe is really created by perception. [**] (81).

The Lord of the Universe has declared: "By me, on whom depends the illusion of maya all this (universe) has been spread forth. Therefore, all things are in me, not I in them; for instance, although silver appears (falsely) in the mother-o'-pearl, there is naught of the mother-o'-pearl in silver. Therefore, [**] too, all things do not (in reality) exist in me." It follows from this that the whole objective world is as unreal as the products of jugglery. (82).