Commentary on the Panchadasi : - Post-4. Swami Krishnananda.
===================================================================================================== Discourse -1. Chapter - 1: Tattva Viveka – Discrimination of Reality Slogams : 1 to 5. Slogam-4: ==================================================================================================== Slogam - 4. Tatha svapne’tra vedyam tu na sthiram jagare sthiram, tad behdo’tastayoh samvid ekarupa na bhidyate (4). The difference between waking and dreaming is that waking looks like a longer experience, and dream is often considered to be shorter in comparison with waking. But that is a different matter. In the same way as we have diversity of perception in waking, there is diversity of perception in dream also. In dream we also have mountains and rivers and people, and all kinds of things. How do we know them? We have got dream eyes, dream ears, dream taste, dream touch, and so on. The mind in dream manufactures a new set of senses which are not the waking senses, and ...