तस्य वा एतस्य पुरुषस्य द्वे एव स्थाने भवतः इदम् च परलोकस्थानं च सन्ध्यं तृतीयं स्वप्नस्थानम् तस्मिन्सन्ध्ये स्थाने तिष्ठन् उभे स्थाने पश्यतीदं च परलोकस्थानं च अथ यथाक्रमो अयं परलोकस्थाने भवति तम् आक्रमम् आक्रम्य उभयान् पाप्मन आनन्दांश् च पश्यति सः यत्र प्रस्वपित्य् अस्य लोकस्य सर्वावतो मात्राम् अपादाय स्वयं विहत्य स्वयं निर्माय स्वेन भासा स्वेन ज्योतिषा प्रस्वपिति अत्रायं पुरुषः स्वयंज्योतिर् भवति
tasya vā etasya puruṣasya dve eva sthāne bhavataḥ idam ca paralokasthānaṃ ca sandhyaṃ tṛtīyaṃ svapnasthānam tasminsandhye sthāne tiṣṭhan ubhe sthāne paśyatīdaṃ ca paralokasthānaṃ ca atha yathākramo ayaṃ paralokasthāne bhavati tam ākramam ākramya ubhayān pāpmana ānandāṃś ca paśyati saḥ yatra prasvapity asya lokasya sarvāvato mātrām apādāya svayaṃ vihatya svayaṃ nirmāya svena bhāsā svena jyotiṣā prasvapiti atrāyaṃ puruṣaḥ svayaṃjyotir bhavati
This person has two states: this one and the state of the other world; and a third, the joining state, the state of dream. Standing in the joining state, he sees both — this and the state of the other world. And by whatever approach he comes to the state of the other world, going by that approach he sees both: the evils and the joys. When he falls asleep, he takes the material of this all-containing world, himself pulls it down and himself builds it up, and dreams by his own brightness, by his own light. Here this person is his own light.
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The map of the three states, which shaped all Indian thought: waking, the other world — and between them the sandhya, the "joint", the twilight of dream: a viewing platform from which one "sees both". Dream is no flight from reality but the borderland of two realities: in it both the affairs of this side and the reckonings of the other can be seen — "both the evils and the joys" of both banks.
And a great word about the dreamer: falling asleep, he "takes the material of the all-containing world (mātrām apādāya), himself pulls it down and himself builds it up" — he dismantles the daytime world and raises his own. Dream is a nightly proof of the creative nature of the soul: it can build worlds! And then the conclusion for whose sake the whole ladder of lights was built: atrāyaṁ puruṣaḥ svayaṁ-jyotir bhavati — "here this person is his own light": in dream, where nothing outward shines and yet worlds are seen, self-luminosity is displayed as a fact available to everyone every night.