उपनिषद् · Mahā 4.43
॥
देवनागरी
यदिदं दृश्यते सर्वं जगत्स्थावरजङ्गमम् तत्सुषुप्ताविव स्वप्नः कल्पान्ते प्रविनश्यति
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
yadidaṃ dṛśyate sarvaṃ jagatsthāvarajaṅgamam tatsuṣuptāviva svapnaḥ kalpānte pravinaśyati
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
यत् इदम् दृश्यते सर्वम्yat idam dṛśyate sarvamall this that is seen; everything that is beheld
जगत् स्थावर-जङ्गमम्jagat sthāvara-jaṅgamamthe world unmoving and moving; the world immobile and mobile
तत् सुषुप्तौ इव स्वप्नःtat suṣuptau iva svapnaḥit — like a dream in deep sleep; it is just like a dream-vision in dreamless slumber
कल्प-अन्ते प्रविनश्यतिkalpa-ante pravinaśyatiat the end of the kalpa perishes utterly; at the kalpa's close it wholly disappears
अनुवाद
“All that is seen — the world moving and unmoving — perishes utterly at the end of the kalpa, like a dream in deep sleep.”
संस्करण
108252616207 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The comparison is chosen with a precision worth taking apart.
It says not “the world is like a dream”, but “the world vanishes as a dream vanishes in deep sleep”.
The difference is substantial. The dream is not refuted or exposed: it simply ends when the sleeper goes deeper. And in deep sleep no one thinks the dream was a lie — one does not think of it at all.
So with the world at kalpa-anta, the end of the world-day: it is not exposed as a fraud, it is rolled up.
Note that the comparison meanwhile says nothing about whether the world was real. The dream was a real dream; it ended.
This matters for sober reading: from the fact that something ends, it does not follow that it was not.