The Philosophy of the Upanishads c11.s3.t3.5

c11.s3.t3.5

In this passage two methods of conceiving the dream are poetically united. According to the one, the spirit remains in its place, and fashions from itself “by virtue of its own brilliance its own light,” a new world of forms, using the materials of its waking hours. According to the other, the spirit in dreaming forsakes the body, and “moves whither it will,” and consequently at times finds difficulty in returning to the body.