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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 16]
ātmānam —himself;  eka-deśa-stham —lying down in one place;  man-yate —he considers;  svapne —in the dreaming condition;  utthitaḥ —waking up;  evam —in this way;  jāgaraṇa-ādīni —the states of wakefulness and so on;  jīva-sthānāni —the living entity's different conditions of existence;  ca —also;  ātmanaḥ —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  māyā-mātrāṇi —the exhibitions of the illusory potency;  vijñāya —knowing;  tat —of them;  draṣṭāram —the creator or seer of all such conditions;  param —the Supreme;  smaret —one should always remember.
TRANSLATION
When a person is in deep sleep, he dreams and sees in himself many other objects, such as great mountains and rivers or perhaps even the entire universe, although they are far away. Sometimes when one awakens from a dream he sees that he is in a human form, lying in his bed in one place. Then he sees himself, in terms of various conditions, as belonging to a particular nationality, family and so on. All the conditions of deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness are but energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One should always remember the original creator of these conditions, the Supreme Lord, who is unaffected by them.
PURPORT
None of these conditions of the living entities—namely, deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness—is substantial. They are simply displays of various phases of conditional life. There may be many mountains, rivers, trees, bees, tigers and snakes that are situated far away, but in a dream one may imagine them to be nearby. Similarly, as one has subtle dreams at night, when the living entity is awake he lives in gross dreams of nation, community, society, possessions, skyscrapers, bank balance, position and honor. Under the circumstances, one should know that his position is due to his contact with the material world. One is situated in different positions in various forms of life that are all but creations of the illusory energy, which works under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the Supreme Lord is the ultimate actor, and the conditioned living entity should simply remember this original actor, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As living entities, we are being carried away by the waves of  prakṛti , or nature, which works under the Lord's direction