SWEET DREAMS SWEEP DREAMS

06-10-2005, 02:25 PM

SWEET DREAMS - SWEEP DREAMS

“Removal of ignorance is like this, Oh Arjuna, if dream and sleep disappear, you
are yourself. It is like that” –Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch. XXXIX, L.

A poor man and his wife remained childless for several years after their
marriage. At last, a son was born to them, and their joy knew no bounds. He was
truly the apple of their eyes.

All of a sudden, the boy fell seriously ill. The parents did everything they
could to treat him and cure him. Every last penny they had, was spent on him –
but to no avail. His illness could not even be diagnosed, and the child died.

The mother was overwrought with grief. She wept and wailed in profound misery.
The father, however, remained calm.

“How can you be so indifferent?” wept his wife. “Don’t you feel miserable at the
loss of our only child?”

“Last night, I had dream,” her husband replied. “I dreamt that I was a king, and
a proud father of five handsome princes – wise, well-behaved, bright. All the
five were killed on the same day in a war, as they tried to save their
country.”

The poor man asked his wife gently, “Tell me, for I am puzzled. Should I grieve
over the death of my princes whom I lost in my dream, or for the one I have
lost here, in this life?”

How true it is that this life is a dream. Only a few blessed ones who realize
the Truth awake from this dream.

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