To Katie on dream

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omshaktipriya wrote:

 

>> I had a second dream in the past month of Ammachi last night. I was in

India

>> with a group (maybe a school group)...and we were in Kerala. I was

desperate

>> to seek out Amma's ashram, and wandered into town to ask someone.

>> But everyone I saw was wearing big crosses and...talking...about...Jesus

was,

>> so I shied away from them...before I could ask one of the people there, a

terrible

>> hurricane-type thing blew in. It was smashing in windows and the

downpour was

>> horrendous.

>> Somehow, I had been granted the ability to make objects (and myself)

>> hover and move simply by willing it very strongly...I willed myself to

sort of

>> run/fly through the storm and I made it out...to a red-sand desert that I

knew

>> the ashram was in...I found my way to an ashram. But it was of this

elderly

>> white woman and it was more like a temple/giftshop/ashram all in one.

>> And I was thinking "this isn't what I want! I want Amma!"...the back of

my mind

>> was telling me to trust Amma, and if this is what she wills, then so be

it.

>> I could see the elderly woman as an Avatar of Devi as well, so that

wasn't the problem.

>> I found a stick of black soot or chalkish type stuff on a counter while I

was waiting

>> for her...I drew a talik on my brow...

>> Then she came in...and greeted me warmly and said "I'm so glad you're

here!

>> I just got off the phone with Amma, such a wonderful woman, and she

assured me

>> that she had sent someone to help me out...And here you are...like an

obediant child! >> >> You won't be here too long, I just need help with a few

things around here since I'm

>> getting older..."...

 

Dear Katie ~ I won't say I have any great ability at dream analysis, but I

have done Tarot freadings and workshops for many years (not the usual

predictive type, but more as seeing the Tarot cards representing our spiritual

journey). In this dream you were making a journey.

And in some ways, I can't help but think that perhaps some of this dream was

generated by all the discussion in the group of whether is it okay or not to

see other gurus.

 

In any case, you were very clear in your choice ~ you were seeking Amma.In a

way, the hurricane could be seen as a vehicle (after all, it was a hurricane

that got Dorothy out of Kansas). In this case, the hurricane allowed you to

discover a new ability in yourself (flying) and you were able to get to the

desert where you knew Amma's ashram was. A hurricane is a destructive force of

nature, but it sweeps everything away, so in a sense, it could also be looked

as a force to rid you of vasanas. Who knows, if you had too many vasanas

holding you down, you might not have been able to fly.

 

In many symbolic systems air (via the flying) represents thought in all its

qualities, but in its purest, highest state, the ability to discriminate. Air

also symbolizes seeing. Your seeing is obsructed, or you have wiped the

window clean (or gotten rid of it all together, as with the hurricane) so you

are

able to see clearly. In the Tarot (as I use it and teach it), this seeng

clearly is the ability to see all things as Divine. You had already shown your

ability to discriminate once, in Kerala. Then you showed it again, by realizing

that the gift shop/ashram wasn't where Amma was either. Yet, you found in

yourself the ability to see the old woman as an avatar of Devi. Isn't this what

we all seek ~ to see the people and things around us as Divine? You drew a

talik on your brow (which is interesting because when I googled this, there

was a reference for making the talik with ash or soot), signifying your loyalty

to Hindu spirituality (and what that represents to you, Amma).

 

And after all that, this (Devi) woman came in and said she had just got off

the phone with Amma, and that Amma had sent you, which to me signifies that,

even in your subconscious mind, you are so aligned with Amma that you would

follow Her direction. All in all, a wonderful dream. Blessings ~ Linda

 

 

 

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*Chuckles* Perhaps it is the common background of Tarot readings and such,

but I believe this is the second time that we've agreed quite extensively on

the meanings of my dreams. lol I plan to google the talik bit after I write

this to see what you found, but it definitely is interesting. You've put into

words what my mind was trying to piece together from the dream. I couldn't

believe, though, that I'd had a second dream within a few weeks of the

previous,

when I know others have never been blessed with Her presence in their dreams,

though they've known of her longer than myself. I consider each dream a

definite blessing, no matter the meaning. Jai ma!

-Katie