māyāmātraṃ tu kārtsnyenānabhivyaktasvarūpatvāt ..3.2.3..

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SUTRA III. 2. 3.

मायामात्रं तु कार्त्स्न्येनानभिव्यक्तस्वरूपत्वात्॥३.२.३॥

māyāmātraṃ tu kārtsnyenānabhivyaktasvarūpatvāt ..3.2.3..

…. Mayamatram, produced from the will of Him and with impressions (stored in the mind of the soul), .. Tu, but. … Kartsnyena, fully. … Anabhivyakta-svampatvat, being destitute of tangible forms, occupying space, not being fully manifested.

3. Maya or the will of the Lord is the only means through which He creates dream-objects. (They are not made of objective matter), because they are not perceptible to all persons, but are seen only by the dreamer. — 322

COMMENTARY

The mysterious Maya is the only material with which the dream objects are created. They are not made of the gross elements, nor are they created by Brahma, the four-faced. Why do we say so? Because they do not become manifest, as objects of perception, to everyone. Thus it is demonstrated that the dream creation is the work of the Supreme Self.

Adhikarana II — The dreams are not all false

Next arises the question: Are the creations of dream all false or true? The Purvapaksha maintains that the dream is altogether unreal, because it is sublated by the waking consciousness. On waking from dream one realises its unreality. This view is set aside by the next Sutra.

SUTRA III. 2. 4.

सूचकश्च हि श्रुतेः आचक्षते च तद्विदः॥३.२.४॥

sūcakaśca hi śruteḥ ācakṣate ca tadvidaḥ ..3.2.4..

.. Suchakah, indicatory, suggestive. .. Cha, and. Hi, because … Shruteh, from Shruti … Achakshate, say, affirm. … Cha, and. … Tadvidah, those who know that.

4. The dream creation is indicatory of good or evil, (hence it is not unreal). The scriptures also teach the dreams to be indicatory, and the experts thereof also declare the same. — 323

COMMENTARY

The dream creation is true. The objects seen in a dream are indicatory of good or bad luck, or of certain Mantras. The Scriptures teach this. Thus Chhandogya, V. 2. 8 and 9:

Then having washed the Mantha (Mantra?) vessel, which should be either of bell-metal or of wood, let him lie down behind the (ire, on a skin or on a bare ground, silently and singly. If in his dreams he sees a woman, let him know this as an omen that his sacrifice has been successful.

On this there is the following verse: «If in Kamya sacrifices, he sees a woman in his dreams, then let him know this bodes success — this vision shown him in a dream, this vision shown him in a dream».

Similarly, in the Kaushitaki Brahmana we find the following:

If one sees in a dream, a black person with black teeth, then it bore-bodes that he will kill him.

The word «Tadvid» or export means those who know how to interpret dreams, such as Brihaspati and the rest. They declare that some dreams bode good, others evil. Such as dreaming that one is riding on an elephant bodes good: while if he dreams that he is riding on a donkey, it forebodes evil.

Sometimes one gets in dream Mantras, as we find from the following verse:

As the Lord Shiva taught Vishvamitra (Budha Kaushika) in dream the Mantra called Ramaraksha, he exactly wrote it out, in the morning, when he awoke from sloop.

This shows that poems and Stotras can also be obtained in dreams.

Therefore the dream creation is as real as the waking state. Because the dream objects indicate future true objects; secondly because works of genius like poems, etc., are found in dreams, and remedies for diseases are prescribed therein; and sometimes the exact object soon in dreams is soon afterwards in waking state. Such as the person who will kill one.

The author now answers the objection based on the fact that because dream consciousness is sublated by the waking consciousness, therefore all dreams are unreal.

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