Re:A question - Dreams; Patanjali

[Guest guest]

Om there, Shankaree:

 

According to Eric Ackroyd's A Dictionary of Dream Symbols:

 

1) Eating can be a substitute form of self-gratification and may

therefore represent the basic need that has been displaced - for

example, sex, love, fulfilment in work.

 

3) Perhaps there is something that you need to 'digest inwardly':

some positive idea or attitude that you need to assimilate into

your being.

 

(No. 2 didn't seem to apply; it was about if something in your

dream is threatening to eat you.)

 

Your dream seems straightforward in that there is something

substantial and nourishing for you in the two options given in the

dream, and the message seems to be not to limit yourself to just

one option.

 

However, what do the yantras each represent, in an of

themselves, and to you specifically? (I don't need the answers to

these questions; this is just my response to your post, but it

would be interesting if you wanted to post them.)

 

I also wanted to post one of my favorites of Patanjali's yoga

sutras on Tranquility of Thought which mentions dreams. This is

the one sutra that has stayed with me since my first reading

specifically because it states that dreams provide a knowledge

base which can be the foundation for tranquility of thought. This

is why I do not understand why some pranayama instructions

would have a goal of dreamless sleep....

 

"Tranquility of thought comes through the cultivation of

friendship, compassion, joy, and impartiality in spheres of

pleasure and pain, virtue and vice.

 

Or through the measured exhalation and retention of breath.

Or when the mind's activity, arisen in the sense world, is held

still.

 

Or when thought is luminous, free from sorrow.

 

Or when thought is without passion in the sphere of the senses.

 

Or when its foundation is knowledge from dreams and sleep.

 

Or through meditation on a suitable object.

 

For one whose thought is tranquil, mastery extends from the

most minute particle to the vast expanse."

 

With love,

Mary Ann

 

, shankaree ramatas

<shankaree> wrote:

> Pranam. Thank you all for replying to me. The reason why I

was asking particularly for these two yantras is bcause I had a

dream. In my dream, I am with someone. I am eating a piece of

meat and my companion says "Don't just eat the Vijaya yantra, try

the Sri Vijaya yantra as well" and offers me another piece of

meat. Can anyone interpret this, please?

>

> With Love

>

> Shankaree

>

>

> Let my every word be a prayer to Thee,

> Every movement of my hands a ritual gesture to Thee,

> Every step I take a circumambulation of Thy image,

> Every morsel I eat a rite of sacrifice to Thee,

> Every time I lay down a prostration at Thy feet;

> Every act of personal pleasure and all else that I do,

> Let it all be a form of worshiping Thee."

>

> From Verse 27 of Shri Aadi Shankara's Saundaryalahari

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[Guest guest]

Pranam, MaryAnnji.

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

*However, what do the yantras each represent, in an of themselves,

and to you specifically? (I don't need the answers to these

questions; this is just my response to your post, but it would be

interesting if you wanted to post them.)*

 

That is the thing. I don't know. In my dream, it is just a piece of

meat. In fact, I do not even know if there is a Sri Vijaya yantra. I

now know that there is a Vijaya yantra courtesy of Madan Mohanji.

But, I did not know then. This just came out of the blue. I am still

puzzled of the deeper implications.

 

Awaiting more interpretations...

 

With Love

 

Shankaree

[Guest guest]

Dear Shakareeji:

 

Other ideas (soon I'll quit monopolizing the board!): see if the

letters of the names can make other words. This may not apply,

but one time, I had a dream with a particular Hollywood actor in

it, and his name, when I moved the letters around, made a word

that meant something to me.

 

Also, what does meat mean, or not mean, to you? Your reply to

my post brings to mind a song (more lyrics!) called "Timothy"

that was on the radio when I was a child. It was about some men

that were trapped in a mine, and went: "...and Joe said that he

would sell his soul for just a piece of meat." (Those are exactly

your words, "just a piece of meat.") The song continued from

there: "Timothy, Timothy/Joe was looking at you/Timothy,

Timothy/God what did we do?" I remember speculation on

whether Timothy was actually a man, or an animal, but the song

was about great remorse over having killed and eaten out of

desperate hunger.

 

Okay, I think I have exhausted my supply of dream interpretation

material, at least for the moment

 

Love,

Mary Ann

 

, "Shankaree"

<shankaree> wrote:

> Pranam, MaryAnnji.

>

> Thank you for your reply.

>

> *However, what do the yantras each represent, in an of

themselves,

> and to you specifically? (I don't need the answers to these

> questions; this is just my response to your post, but it would be

> interesting if you wanted to post them.)*

>

> That is the thing. I don't know. In my dream, it is just a piece of

> meat. In fact, I do not even know if there is a Sri Vijaya yantra. I

> now know that there is a Vijaya yantra courtesy of Madan

Mohanji.

> But, I did not know then. This just came out of the blue. I am

still

> puzzled of the deeper implications.

>

> Awaiting more interpretations...

>

> With Love

>

> Shankaree