Dreams & Sadhana !!

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LUCID DREAMS AND SADHANA

 

 

Tks Erica, Tatwamasi and Nivedita for chosing dreams.. such a

fascinating subject for discussion.

 

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 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 clubs 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!!!

 

(To continue……..)