Chapter 11 75 state. The सप्रयोजनता argument therefore has no scope here. Are we not therefore justified in saying that the dream is an entirely unique state having no correspondence to the जाग्रत् state, and that the dreamer is also a different soul who creates those abnormal things in such an easy manner? No conclusion can therefore be drawn about the act of objects in the waking state from what we see in the dream. The Siddhantin's answer is as follows: We agree that स्वप्नदृश्य is an अपूर्व thing. But that does not mean that the dreamer is a different soul; it is just a case of स्वप्नमाहात्म्य. The अपूर्वत्व is but a characteristic of the dream-state. Is not the देवलोक associated with all kinds of unbelievable objects ? An ordinary person when anointed as king, does become possessed of extraordinary powers. Similarly the dream is a privileged place. To us in the waking a state the things seen or done in a dream may appear impossible or abnormal, but the dreamer considers them as just ordinary routine and they are real to the dreamer only. Even in the waking state an untrained man would think it abnormal or impossible that one could fly in the air in a big Constellation aeroplane at the rate of 300 miles an hour, but a trained air-pilot does that with the greatest ease. So the वैतथ्य of things does not depend upon whether the things are normal or abnormal, but upon whether they are capable of being belied in another state. The अपूर्व in the dream is the धर्म of the dreamer, that is all. यथा स्थानिधर्माणां रज्जुसर्पमृगतृष्णिका- दीनामसत्त्वं तथा स्वप्नदृश्यानामपूर्वाणां स्थानिधर्मत्वमेवेत्यसत्वम् । ( Sankara). (9 and 10 ) Things, both in the जाग्रत् and स्वप्न states, are चेतः- कल्पित and so मिथ्या. जाग्रत state स्वप्न state ( 1 ) Whatever is imagined ( ! ) Even in the स्वप्न by the mind is popularly regard dreamer imagines certain things ed as असत् in the mind and considers them ( 2 ) Whatever is cognised as असत by the sense-organs outside, is ( 2 ) Even in the स्वप्न, the regarded as सत् dreamer considers things cognised outside as सत् This shows that the so-called सदसद्विभाग in the जाग्रत् state obtains in the state as well. जाग्रत् state is therefore on par with the स्वप्न
