The Philosophy of the Upanishads c9.s2.t7.1.2

c9.s2.t7.1.2

but Prajâpati looking after them says:—“So they depart, without having perceived or discovered the self.” Viroc’ana and the demons rest content with this answer, and therefore all demon-like men, seeing the self in the body, deck the human frame with all kinds of finery, as though it were destined for a future life, a world beyond. Indra, on the contrary, reflecting that this self is exposed to all the sufferings and imperfections of the body, and perishes at death, feels (what everyone may feel) that no change which passes over us can affect us, and returns to Prajâpati. Prajâpati now communicates to him the second answer:—the self is that which roams about untrammelled in dreams; “that is the immortal, the fearless, that is Brahman.” But even with this answer Indra cannot remain satisfied. The dream-self is not, it is true, affected by the injuries which the body experiences from objects, but yet it is virtually affected by them, seeing that it proceeds to create an objective world over-against itself.