Champaklal Speaks

12 October 1936

Since a few days, at dawn, just before the sun's rays could reach and awaken me, some Rakshasas would come and carry me away to a pitch dark place. One day, suddenly, the light from the sun reached me in that place and I awoke. The demons could no longer enter there. My entire body was filled with Ananda.

It is the fight of the two consciousnesses—the wrong forces pulling to the dark levels, but the touch of the Sun of Truth intervenes with its light and rises where they cannot enter.

The dream of last night. There was water everywhere—difficult to say whether it was a river or lake or sea. A man had fallen in it in a place where it was not possible to swim. He was not in a position to come out. I had to follow the same route. On seeing his plight I was not sure how I could proceed. Somehow I managed to pull him out and thought I had saved a life. I asked him, “Why did you not call for any help? Would you not have drowned if I had not pulled you out?” He replied, “I have full faith in God—if He wants to save me. He would surely help.” He said it with such an ardent faith that even an atheist would have believed it.

Then I found another route and followed it. I had to climb a very high mountain. I do not know what happened to the people who were with me. I kept climbing up. Finally, I reached a place beyond which I could not go as there was no road. There were precipices in front and on the sides. I felt as if I had reached the sky. There was somebody behind me who resembled my elder brother Sunderlal. He held me in his grip and hung one of his legs over the precipice. I found it very difficult to balance myself as there was nothing in front of me which I could hold as a support. I told him that this way both of us would fall. He remained stubborn. I pleaded with him to leave me. When I woke up, I actually felt that I was saved from death.

The first part of the dream is an experience of the mental-vital plane and indicates the saving power of an absolute faith. The other shows the ascent to the highest levels of the earth consciousness, but there is still something of the old self and nature clinging and trying to pull downwards; it refuses to let go, bur finally it has to fall off and the being can ascend without downward pull or fear of fall, into the skies of the higher consciousness above.

12.10.1936