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(Redirected from Swapna (philosophy)) Sanskrit term for dream

Svapna (Sanskrit: स्वप्न, romanized: svapna) is the Sanskrit word for a dream. In Hindu philosophy, svapna is a state of consciousness when a person is dreaming or is asleep. In this state, he or she cannot perceive the external universe with the senses. This state may contain the conscious activities of memory or imagination. It is typically compared with the states of wakeful consciousness (jagarata), deep sleep in which no cognition occurs (sushupti), and the fourth state known as turiya. These four states of consciousness are described in the Chandogya Upanishad and recur commonly in the literature of yoga.

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  1. Lanman, Charles Rockwell (1996). A Sanskrit Reader: Text and Vocabulary and Notes. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 283. ISBN 978-81-208-1363-2.
  2. Doniger, Wendy (2010-09-30). The Hindus: An Alternative History. OUP Oxford. p. 517. ISBN 978-0-19-959334-7.
  3. Shiva Sutra of Vasugupta as translated by: Feuerstein, Georg (2013-09-11). The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice (Kindle Locations 9285-9291). Hohm Press. Kindle Edition. " during the differentiation waking, dream sleep, and deep sleep, emergence of enjoyment of the Fourth . (1.7) The waking state (jâgrat) knowledge (jnâna). (1.8) Dream sleep (svapna) imagination (vikalpa). (1.9) Deep sleep (saushupta) illusion (mâyâ) nondifferentiation (aviveka). (1.10)"
  4. Bhattacharya, Dipak (1978). "The Doctrine of Four in the Early Upaniṣads and Some Connected Problems". Journal of Indian Philosophy. 6 (1): 1–34. ISSN 0022-1791.
  5. Saraswati, Sri Swami Sivananda (2013-06-13). Kundalini Yoga (Kindle Location 2724). Kindle Edition."During the states of waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep, the Vijnana Atma which dwells in this body is deluded by Maya."
  6. Patrick Olivelle, The Early Upanishads Annotated, p. 23. "The cavity of the heart is the seat of the vital powers and the self and plays a central role in the explanations of the three states of awareness—waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep— as well as of death. In sleep, the cognitive powers distributed throughout the body during the waking hours are gathered together in the cavity of the heart. The space of this cavity is homologized with cosmic space (see CU 3.12.7-9), and in the dream state the person travels about this space seeing and enjoying the same type of things that he experienced while awake. During deep and dreamless sleep, the self slips out of that cardiac space and enters the veins going from the heart to the peri- cardium; there it remains oblivious to everything (see BU 2.1; 4.3-4)."
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