हिन्दी
After that Sauryayani (Suryavanshi) Gargya asked him, "Lord, who sleeps and who is awake in this 'satta' (man)?"
Who is this god who dreams or whose is this happiness?
In whom do all these merges (contain)?
Sage Pippalada replied to him:
O Gargya, like the rays of the setting sun, because they all set together in that celestial sphere, but when it rises again they also move, In the same way, in the Supreme God, man's creative being, his mind also, becomes one.
That is why at that time this entity, this Purusha, does not see, hear, smell, taste, touch, speak, receive, donate, or He comes, doesn't go, he doesn't feel any joy. Then it is said about him that 'he is dormant (sleeping)'.
But the fires of the breath keep watch in that sleeping city.
The lower breath is the householder's fire and the breath-pervasor the fire of the Lares that burn to the southward.
The main breath is the orient fire of the sacrifice; and even as the eastern fire taketh its fuel from the western, so in the slumber of a man the main breath taketh from the lower.
But the medial breath is the priest, the sacrificer; for he equalises the offering of the inbreath and the offering of the outbreath.
The Mind is the giver of the sacrifice, and the upper breath is the fruit of the sacrifice, for it to take the sacrifice day by day into the presence of the Eternal.
And, this 'mind' enjoys in the dream the glories of its imagination.
He sees again what he had seen and hears again what he had heard; In fact, whatever he had personally experienced, thought and known in different places and different areas, he re-lives all that in his dream state.
What it had seen and what it had not seen, what it had heard and what it had not heard, what it had known and what it had not known, all that is and all that is not, all, it sees all, cause 'Mind' is the 'world'.
But when it is overwhelmed by the effulgence (light), then this 'mind' this 'god' does not dream.
Then it enjoys in this body.
Oh, gentle son!
Just as birds fly back to their shelter-trees, so they all return to the Supreme Soul.
Earth and the inner things of earth; water and the inner things of water; light and the inner things of light; air and the inner things of air; ether and the inner things of ether; the eye and its seeing; the ear and its hearings; smell and the objects of smell; taste and the objects of taste; the skin and the objects of touch; speech and the things to be spoken; the two hands and their takings; the organ of pleasure and its enjoying; the anus and its excretions; the feet and their goings; the mind and its feelings; the intelligence and what it understand; the sense of Ego and that which is felt to be Ego; the conscious heart and that of which it is conscious; light and what it lightens; Life and the things it maintains.
For this that sees, speaks, hear, smells, tastes, feels, perceives, does, soul of science, that is the reasoning self, the Male within.
This also gets departed to Higher Self which is Imperishable.
He that know the shadowless, colourless, bodiless, luminous and imperishable Spirit, attains to the Imperishable, even to the Most High.
O fair son, he knows the All and becomes the All.
About which this verse (Sruti-vachan) is.
He, O fair son, that knows the Imperishable into whom the understanding-self departs, and all the Gods, and the life-breaths and the elements, he knows the Universe!
