Shloka 2
इन्द्र–बलि संवादः
The Dialogue of Indra and Bali on Fortune, Humility, and Restraint
स्वप्ने हि रजसा देही तमसा चाभि भूयते । देहान्तरमिवापतन्नश्नरत्युपगतस्पृह:,स्वप्नमें जीवको प्रायः रजोगुण और तमोगुण दबा लेते हैं। वह कामनायुक्त होकर दूसरे शरीरको प्राप्त हुएकी भाँति विचरता है
svapne hi rajasā dehī tamasā cābhibhūyate | dehāntaram ivāpatann aśnaraṭy upagata-spṛhaḥ ||
स्वप्ने हि रजसा देही तमसा चाभिभूयते। स्पृहयाऽभ्युपपन्नः सन् देहान्तरमिवापतन् विचरत्यश्नन् रत्युपगतः॥
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dream-experience is explained as a condition where the embodied self is dominated by rajas and tamas, so desire and delusion shape perception; the dreamer behaves as if inhabiting another body, illustrating how craving can fabricate a convincing but unreal world.
Bhishma is instructing about the workings of consciousness and the guṇas: in dream the jīva, propelled by latent desires, wanders through dream-objects as though it had taken on a different embodiment.