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.
The great fish between the banks
Just as a great fish moves along both banks of a river, the near and the far, so does this person move along both these states, the dream and the waking.
As a large fish swims back and forth between the two banks of a river, the eastern and the western, never carried off by the current, so this self moves back and forth between its two states, dream and waking, belonging fully to neither.
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Sankara takes the great fish as the image of the self that traverses dream and waking under its own power, never swept away by either current, so the states are like banks it visits while remaining itself, free and unattached.