Sadhna and Dreams !!

[Guest guest]

Dreams are certainly an integral part of our life and as per men of

science, the dreams are due to :-

 

1) Settling of mind's memory to re-arrange the emotions and their

outcomes properly in different categories; or

 

2) to bring out our hidden desires and fulfil them at sub-conscious

level

 

Some also say that the dreams occur to tell us about our past

lives/future lives or to warn us of any forthcoming calamity..or

just to keep the mind busy in sleep.

 

Well dream have always fascinated me and I can say that my

treading on the path of sadhana and birth of this group called

sadhana was due to dreams, will not be a false claim. I will

say ," I believe that all the explanations of dreams are true and

together they make an iota of the truth of dreams."

 

We see dreams because our Anthakarna (innerself) goes to the

astral/causal plane during sleep and as I wrote in one of my

earlier posts, sleep is just like samadhi, the only and the biggest

difference being the Guna bringing samadhi or sleep. In samadhi,

we are over-powered by Sat-guna and we see visions and in sleep we

are over powered by Tam-guna and we see dreams. It is also a fact

that we visit the plane of Astral consciousness during the Samadhi

and sleep…the only difference being the guna which is our guide on

the astral plane.

 

Lucid Dreaming is becoming very popular among the psychiatrists and

they have found many fascinating facts about dreaming…not covered

by science (but by our religion).

 

What is lucid dreaming - A dream where you are seeing a dream but

you are aware that you are watching a dream. There are different

stages of Lucid dreams, but once when we start seeing Lucid dreams,

we can safely say, we are treading into the path of Sadhna. Some

people have inborn capabitlites of going into Lucid dreams without

any sadhana, they observe Lucid dreams. I would say…it is due to

their sadhana in the previous birth….but one thing is sure those who

see Lucid dreams, are certainly higher souls than those who do not …

notwithstanding the social status, brain development or sadhana.

 

In a normal dream, our body numbs (and sleeps)…our faculties are

out of our control…and Tamo guna taking over us..our Viveka

(intelligence) loses power to distinguish/control the Vrittis

(thought waves) and we helplessly see what our mind is doing with

the thought-waves, or how it is reacting to them. But if we are on

the path of sadhna…and have acquired some proficiency….Slowly

Tamoguna is replaced by Satoguna..and our viveka remains with us even

while dreaming. It is here when Lucid dreaming starts. We become

master of dreams…we consciously react to a thought wave and work out

on it.

 

In Lucid dreaming we do not act like a mere Saakshi (spectator) or

a slave…but like a master of our own dreams.

 

In the first stages of Lucid dreaming, we only become aware that we

are watching a dream. We do not have actual control over the

happenings of the dream. We know we are afraid or happy over a

situtation and we know that this is a temporary phase and soon we

will wake up and this will go. This type of Lucid dreaming can be

even without doing any sadhana (due to last birth sadhana)….but

with continued sadhna we can shift our consciousness to second stage

of Lucid dreaming…where we become the master of our dreams…where

miracles happen!!!

 

( will be continued...)