सः होवाच अजातशत्रुः यत्र एषः एतत् सुप्तः अभूत् यः एषः विज्ञानमयः पुरुषः तद् एषाम् प्राणानाम् विज्ञानेन विज्ञानम् आदाय यः एषः अन्तः हृदये आकाशः तस्मिन् शेते तानि यदा गृह्णाति अथ ह एतत् पुरुषः स्वपिति नाम तद् गृहीतः एव प्राणः भवति गृहीता वाक् गृहीतम् चक्षुः गृहीतम् श्रोत्रम् गृहीतम् मनः
saḥ hovāca ajātaśatruḥ yatra eṣaḥ etat suptaḥ abhūt yaḥ eṣaḥ vijñānamayaḥ puruṣaḥ tad eṣām prāṇānām vijñānena vijñānam ādāya yaḥ eṣaḥ antaḥ hṛdaye ākāśaḥ tasmin śete tāni yadā gṛhṇāti atha ha etat puruṣaḥ svapiti nāma tad gṛhītaḥ eva prāṇaḥ bhavati gṛhītā vāk gṛhītam cakṣuḥ gṛhītam śrotram gṛhītam manaḥ
Ajātaśatru said: "When he was sleeping thus, this person consisting of consciousness, having taken with his consciousness the consciousness of these breaths, rested in that space which is within the heart. When he gathers them in, then men say: 'the man sleeps'. Then the breath is gathered in, speech is gathered in, the eye is gathered in, the ear is gathered in, the mind is gathered in.
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The king's answer is this book's first anatomy of sleep: as he falls asleep the conscious person "takes with his consciousness the consciousness of the breaths" — folds the light of all the faculties into himself — and rests "in the space within the heart". The dahara-ākāśa we know (ChU 8.1): the night homeland of consciousness is the heart; sleep is the sovereign's return to his inner chambers.
The fivefold "gathered in" (gṛhīta) — breath, speech, eye, ear, mind — describes sleep as a royal recall: the ruler withdraws his governors. That is why the sleeper did not hear the titles: hearing had been gathered in, no one was left at court; and that is why the touch got through: it was not a governor that was touched — it was a knock at the chambers themselves. Gārgya venerated twelve outward persons; the king shows the One in whom they gather for the night.