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yatha sayanah purusa

 atmanam guna-tattva-drk

nama-matrendriyabhatam

 na veda rahitam param

 

evam tva nama-matresu

 visayesv indriyehaya

mayaya vibhramac-citto

 na veda smrty-upaplavat

 

Translation: 

 

A sleeping person imagines an alternative reality for himself and, seeing himself as having various names and forms, forgets his waking identity, which is distinct from the dream. Similarly, the senses of one whose consciousness is bewildered by illusion perceive only the names and forms of material objects. Thus such a person loses his memory and cannot know You.

 

Purport: 

 

Just as a person’s dream is a secondary reality created from the stock of his memories and desires, so this universe exists as the inferior creation of the Supreme Lord, in no real way separate from Him. And just as the person who awakens from sleep experiences the higher reality of his waking life, so the Supreme Lord also has His distinct, higher reality beyond everything we know of this world. In His own words,

 

maya tatam idam sarvam

 jagad avyakta-murtina

mat-sthani sarva-bhutani

 na caham tesv avasthitah

 

na ca mat-sthani bhutani

 pasya me yogam aisvaram

bhuta-bhrn na ca bhuta-stho

 mamatma bhuta-bhavanah

 

“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them. And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everything, I am not part of this cosmic manifestation, for My Self is the very source of creation.” (Bg. 9.4-5)