Yajnavalkya Kanda. Adhyaya 4, Brahmana 3. The self-luminous Self: waking, dream, and the light of man
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Each mantra is given four ways: the Sanskrit in its Devanagari script, the same sounds in Roman letters, an English translation set in our own voice, and then the line once more in plain words, for a first and unhurried reading.
Not every passage is opened to the same depth. A few central mantras carry the full cross-school commentary, where the schools are set side by side. The rest are kept here whole and faithful, set in their place but not expounded, so the book stays entire and nothing is dropped for being thought minor.
Where the schools read a line differently, the difference is kept open. None is crowned and none is corrected. Each is met on its own terms, and where they contradict, the contradiction is left standing for you to sit with.
Back from deep serenity to dream
And this one, having rejoiced and roamed in that deep serenity, and having only seen good and evil, hurries back again, by the reverse path, to the very same starting point, the dream. Whatever he sees there, he is not followed by it, for this person is unattached. "It is just so, Yajnavalkya. I give you a thousand cows, sir. Speak on, for the sake of liberation itself."
After resting and moving about in deep, serene sleep (samprasada), where he merely witnesses, without doing, the traces of good and evil, the self returns by the same route it came, back to dream. Whatever he saw in that deep state does not cling to him afterward, because the self is by nature unattached (asanga). Janaka agrees and again offers a thousand cows, asking him to go on toward liberation.
In the commentaries
Sankara takes the refrain "he is not followed by it" as the key word asanga: the self only witnesses good and evil and is never stained or pursued by what it experiences, so its freedom is its very nature and not something to be newly produced.