there no dreamer, there would be no dreams. The AtmaHs, only
the Itma is, and all this infinite display is Its vibrations.
There are whole worlds hidden away in single atoms (Chid-anu);.
and there are atoms in these worlds, and worlds again within
these atoms, even as in the plantain-stem are folds in folds,
Unto that one of all these endless worlds in which the body of
Padma lies, the other LTia has g'one on already. She reached
it even when she swooned away at sigilt of the blood-covered
body of Viduratha."
Lllaj: "Tell me, 0 D^vi!, how she has g'one on, and how
the denizens of that world behold her."
SarasvatI : ^Listen, and I shall say. All this world and
its occurrences are experienced as a dream by Padma in that
world. And that^other Lila is his dream, as art thou too.
Indeed we all are dreams unto each other. Only the being, of
the Great Consciousness (Maha-Chid-Jnana-Samsthitih) g"ives
being to us all. The reason of the consistency (Aika-matya,.
co-incidence) of the thoughts of each and all Is this : Each Jiva
is the reflection of the Maha-Chit (the Great Consciousness),
and the Nature of that, which Nature is the Great Destiny
(the Maha-Niyati), regulates and predestines all experiences of
each and all, and thus all JTvas perceive each other mutually
reflected^).
(1) [This passage should be read with the later one (p. 78) on the-
awaking of Brahman: "And when it wakes again...sin and merit." The
nature of things is due to the root-form assumed by the Divine Con-
sciousness for a universe, and the similarity of the impressions, of which
Jivas are conscious, is due to the relations established between them, and
to their identity of inner nature. As hydrogen and oxygen brought from
any distance will, under certain given conditions, unite to form water, so-
will Jivas encased in similar vehicles receive from a given object similar
impressions. These root-forms are imposed on the universe, and Jivas-
cannot get outside them, any more than they can escape from the Time
and Space imposed on them. as limitations of consciousness. In faofc, in