Text 57] King Citraketu Meets the Lord 157

TRANSLATION

If one’s dreams during sleep are merely subject matters wit-
nessed by the Supersoul, how can the living entity, who is dif-
ferent from the Supersoul, remember the activities of dreams?
The experiences of one person cannot be understood by another.

/Therefore the knower of the facts, the living entity who inquires
into the incidents manifested in dreams and wakefulness, is dif-
ferent from the circumstantial activities. That knowing factor is
Brahman. In other words, the quality of knowing belongs to the
living entities and to the Supreme Soul. Thus the living entity can
also experience the activities of dreams and wakefulness. In both
stages the knower is unchanged, but is qualitatively one with the
Supreme Brahman.

PURPORT

In knowledge the living entity is qualitatively one with the Supreme
Brahman, but the quantity of the Supreme Brahman is not the same as
that of the living entity, who is part of Brahman. Because the living en-
tity is Brahman in quality, he can remember the past activities of dreams
and also know the present activities of wakefulness.

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yad etad vismrtarh puriso
mad-bhavam bhinnam atmanah
tatah samsdra etasya
dehad deho mrter mrtih

yat—which; etat—this; vismrtam—forgotten; purmsah—of the living
entity; mat-bhdvam—My spiritual position; bhinnam—separation; at-
manah—from the Supreme Soul; tatah—from that; sammsarah—ma-
terial, conditional life; etasya—of the living entity; dehat—from one
body; dehah—another body; mrteh—from one death; mrtih—another
death.
