Vasiṣṭha's teaching (Mahārāmāyaṇa) 3.60.39

3.60.39

paramārthamahāstambhaḥ sṛṣṭiṃ cetati sādṛśam .
yādṛśo me naraḥ pārśve svapne kṣubdho mahābhaṭaiḥ .. 39

38. [Sanskrit available] Just as the waking man, beholds the wondrous world before him, so also does sleeping man see the same; and both of them resemble the insensible pillar, which finds the images of statues engraved upon it: (because the soul is ever awake in every state of all living bodies).

39. [Sanskrit available] The great monument of the Divine Spirit, has the figure of the created world, carved in itself in the same manner, as I see a troop of soldiers passing before me in my dream. (All these appear to be in action, in their true state of nullity and inaction).