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.
From dream back to waking
And this one, having rejoiced and roamed in that dream, and having only seen good and evil, hurries back again, by the reverse path, to the very same starting point, the waking state.
Once more: after resting and moving about in dream, where he merely witnesses good and evil, the self returns by the same route to the waking state. The verse picks up the earlier refrain to resume the thread, now leading into the account of the self's passage out of the body at death.
In the commentaries
Sankara takes this restatement as the bridge from the analysis of the states to the description of dying: having shown the self moving freely and unattached between dream and waking, the text now turns to how that same self leaves the body, so the transition out of life is presented as one more crossing for the unattached self.