My Pilgrimage to the Spirit

May 6, 1932

Experience: A possibility of R's coming back is transcribed in the vital plane, which I saw last night. It was unexpectedly announced to D that R had come.

D informed the Mother and D was asked to take him to T's house. He was given the vacant room in that house.... Though the room was prepared by T, she was grumbling—"He was coming from such a hedious atmosphere."

If I stop hearing all these things what will happen?

Do you think that I can have any positive gain from all this? What should be the true attitude towards all these things?

A. All these dreams are very obviously formations you meet on the vital plane, more rarely on the mental. Sometimes they are the formations of your own mind or vital, sometimes the formations of other minds with an exact or modified transcription in yours; sometimes formations made by forces or beings on that plane. These things are not true in the physical world, but they may have effects in the physical if they are framed with that purpose or that tendency and if they are allowed. The proper course with them is simply to observe and understand or, if they are from a hostile source, like this one, reject or destroy them.

There are other dreams of course that have not the same character but are things that happen on other planes, in other worlds. There are others still that are symbolic; and others again that indicate movements and propensities or old memories or things stored or still alive in the subconscient which have to be changed or got rid of as one rises into a higher consciousness.

Sri Aurobindo