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48 : Śramaņa, Vol 63, No. 3, July-Sep. 2012 The Sāṁkhya and Upanişadic literature depicts the relation of these two on three stages i.e. waking, sleeping and dreaming with an illustration of pendulum." Consciousness oscillates between these three stages. The similar is the case with Jainism but the difference between the sleeping and dreaming state according to Jainism is due to the difference in the karmic influence. The rise of darśanāvaraṇīya karma is responsible for sleeping and the rise of mohanīya karma is responsible for dreaming. The Darśanāvaraniya karma, contacts the consciousness from the senses and other cognitive faculties. Perception of any kind from outer world comes to an end. Then Mohanīya karma, with any other types of Karmas finding the favorable condition i.e. semi-sleeping state, produces the dream images on the screen of mind. “Dreams are outcome of sense data,” is believed by all. But there are different sources for dreaming in different traditions.
Types of dream as mentioned by Freud, divine prophecies, previsions and symbolic' are also acceptable to the Jain philosophy because it believes in all the three. But Freud has no account of inauspicious or auspicious dreams. The reason may be that he did not concern much about the prophetic dreams. His study was mainly dealing with the past of his persons. He himself had mentioned that he is not dealing with the ancient or non-scientific outlook on dreams. His was an empirical study. Although, there are various views regarding the relation of dreaming and waking state as Freud referred them in his book Interpretation of Dreams." Altogether they can fall under two categories. (1) Dream is a kind of cut off from waking world. (2) Dream is a continuation of waking experiences on mental level. Jain's belief holds both. It holds although in sleep we are cut off from material world because material senses stops working but inner senses or the capacity of senses of perception is not hindered. Mind is also called as the master of senses or pseudo-sense, it remain active while dreaming.
