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The Chandogya Upanishad: 4: 6-7. Swami Krishnananda.

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================================================================================================== Saturday 19, September 2026, 16:00.  Chapter 4: An Analysis of the Nature of the Self  Section 6: Course After Death: Mantras 3&4. Section 7: Prajapati's Instruction to Indra Concerning the Real Self =================================================================================================== Section 6: Course After Death: Mantras 3&4. Mantram-3. Tad-yatraitat suptah samastah samprasannah svapnam na vijnati asu tada nadisu srpto bhavati tam na kascana papma sprsati, tejasa hi tada sampanno bhavati. It is these nerve currents that are responsible for the withdrawal of the mind into itself in deep sleep. What we call deep sleep, the composure of the mind, the withdrawal of the mind from all sense activity and the retiring from all dream experience also, where one knows nothing—that experience is brought about by the travel of the various rays of the mind through these...