[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.1161 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1161 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1161 - **Language:** English ### [c7.1161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1161) 2) Svapna (dream). The second state of the individual soul, is svapna (dream). He who indulges in dream, forgets everything he had experienced in the state of Jāgrat and creating new worlds he enjoys them. While the five organs of senses and the five organs of activity of the dreamer take rest, the four inner organs of citta (will) Ahaṅkāra (egoism) Buddhi (reason) and manas (Mind) will be working. See what the author of Upaniṣad says. “The dreamer separates his self from the wide universe and creates his own radiance by his own radiance. The light of the self is the light for the dreamer. That man creates a chariot or an assemblage of chariots or roads where there is no chariot or an assemblage of chariots or a road; joy, delight or extreme delight; ponds, wells and rivers where there are no ponds, wells and rivers. A dreamer is a Lord; the state of the dream is the state of activity.” Another hermit says as follows about the state of dream :—“The dreaming individual soul which sees again things which were seen here and there, hears again things which were heard here and there, enjoys again things which were enjoyed in places far and near, is really enjoying greatness. He sees things seen and not seen, heard and not heard enjoyed and not enjoyed. The dreamer, like a King who travels with his train throughout his country, as he pleases, plays by getting in and out of his own body, and enjoys lofty experiences, and so he is happier than he who eats alone and enjoys his food. The individual soul in its state of dream is called the Taijasa (the radiant) because he illuminates himself by his own radiance. In this state the individual soul does not touch anything and so it is sinless.² - [Previous: c7.1160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1160) - [Next: c7.1162](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1162) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1161) · Pramāṇa