Vasiṣṭha's teaching (Mahārāmāyaṇa) 3.60.40

3.60.40

tādṛśo brahmaṇaḥ svargo buddha eva suṣuptavat .
tṛṇagulmalatāyuktaḥ śiśirānte yathā rasaḥ .. 40

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).

40. [Sanskrit available] So is this waking world asleep in the soul of Brahma, and rises in his mind as the vegetable world springs from the sap lying hid in the earth, which gives it its growth and vernal bloom.