• Dr. Monalisha Biswas

Dream is clarified as one among the four types of invalid knowledge and is technically svapna. Let us see how dream occurs. The Vaisesika-account is given in terms of a set of physiological factors and their activities together with non-physiological factors and their activities together with non-physiological and/or non-empirical components. The soul of an animal becomes exhausted due to various types of work done at the waking state. When a man sleeps to take rest, the objects taken transform into a liquid substance. This transformation depends on some physical effort, which, again, depends on unseen factor (adrsta) i.e., merit (dharma) and demerit (adharma) of an individual being. Just as the previously taken substance transforms into a liquid one due to the physical effort of an individual, the contact between self and mind is also possible due to due to the same effort. As mind is connected with self and special state of heart known as Midhyâ or Puritat, good sleep (susapti) is not possible, for which various activities arise in mind|. The mind having various activities has got no connec¬tion with external sense-organ and exists in self without any movement. Though at this stage mind is not connected with external sense-organ, the knowl¬edge in the form of dream is produced in a non-existent object due to the special type of contact between self and mind and latent impression (samskâra) through the help of mind, the internal sense-organ.

Adrsta, Dharma, Adharma, Midhyâ, Susapti, Samskâra, Dhâtudosa, Vâsa, Asrk, Meda, Majja, Asthi, Dhâtu, Mâmsa, Slesmâ.

"The Vaisesika Account of the Phenomenon of Dream", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.46-49, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907910.pdf

"The Vaisesika Account of the Phenomenon of Dream", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp46-49, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907910.pdf