Shloka 36
Śakra–Namuci-saṃvāda: Śoka-nivāraṇa and Daiva-vicāra
Indra and Namuci on grief, composure, and inevitability
इन्द्रियाण्यपि सूक्ष्माणि दृष्ट््वा पूर्वश्रुतागमात् । चिन्तयन्नानुपर्येति त्रिभिरेवान्वितो गुणै:
indriyāṇy api sūkṣmāṇi dṛṣṭvā pūrvaśrutāgamāt | cintayann ānuparyeti tribhir evānvito guṇaiḥ ||
Bhīṣma dit : «S’appuyant sur l’autorité des enseignements entendus jadis, l’expérimentateur du rêve discerne même les facultés sensorielles les plus subtiles. Et tandis qu’il imagine et médite les objets des sens, il se meut à l’intérieur même du corps selon son gré, accompagné des trois guṇa : sattva, rajas et tamas.»
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even in dream, experience is driven by subtle sense-faculties and prior impressions, and it is colored by the three guṇas. Hence ethical self-cultivation requires guarding sense-contact and training thought, because inner wandering continues even without external objects.
Bhīṣma is explaining to his listener a psychological-metaphysical account of the dreamer: the dream-experiencer, influenced by earlier learned doctrine and by the guṇas, mentally follows sense-objects and ‘roams’ within the body, constructing experience from subtle faculties and impressions.