- organs of perception through which those experiences are had, there remains common factor "I know" in all of them. It does not vary
- Thus what is variable is only the object of knowledge. The knower is untouched by the variety in those objects. If a beam of light is thrown into a dark room,
- it illuminates whatever objects comes within its range. It may be a jewel or a snake, a chair or a table, a sweetmeat or mere rubbish
- This variety in the objects illuminated does not in the least affect the single-ness of the beam. It ever remains the same. By saying that it "illuminates",
- it is not meant that it is any active agent in the activity known as illumination but only that it is and the objects coming in contact with it get automatically illuminated
- In dreams also, there is experience though the objects experienced there are not as substantial or permanent as those experienced in the waking state
- This difference does not affect the nature of the experiencer. He is ever the same. This is pointed out in the next stanza "So also in the dream, Here however,
- the object experienced is not stable. It is stable in the waking state. Hence the difference between them. The entity that cognises both of them is of the same nature and is not different".
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