Bhagavatapurana 3.27.4

3.27.4

arthe hy avidyamāne 'pi saṃsṛtir na nivartate /
dhyāyato viṣayān asya svapne 'narthāgamo yathā //

Verse. 4. D. Though the Jiva in his essential nature cannot be really said to be happy or miserable the Samsara does not vanish without the grace of the Lord since he is given to contemplating the worldly objects and cannot but be the subject of evil experience just as a person does really suffer from the evils indicated by horrible dreams. objects, just as evil consequences are a matter of experience in the state of dream.