... the way of spiritual fulfilment. When one goes there and masters them, then one is free from any intervention of these parts of Nature in the sadhana. Symbolic Dreams on the Vital Plane The dreams you describe are very clearly symbolic dreams on the vital plane. These dreams may symbolise anything, forces at play, the underlying structure and tissue of things done or experienced, actual or potential... dreams it is a waste of time [ to study them ]. Yes, these are symbolic dreams, but the exact meaning varies with the mind and condition of the one who sees them. Page 475 That [ dream ] is evidently unlike many others a symbol dream on the vital plane. But it is difficult to interpret these vital symbolic dreams unless they offer their own clue—they are a sort of hieroglyph in their ...
... give him some needed knowledge or else I want to put someone on his guard against something—put him on his guard, tell him to be careful—or else I come to answer a question at times. Symbolic dreams... symbolic dreams are usually very coherent, one remembers everything, to the least detail; it is more living, more real, more intense than the material life, and it is fairly rare. When one returns from ...
... at times you must learn the inner lesson which the incident is about to give you so that you may be ready for the event to have a full y favourable consequence." Finally a word about 'symbolic dreams'. At times there is a great divergence between what is sought to be conveyed through a particular dream and the actual figure and imagery that the dream-consciousness adopts to convey it. The meaning ...
... Finally, there can come to us the records of happenings seen or — experienced by us on other planes of our own being or of universal being into which we enter: these have sometimes, like the symbolic dreams, a strong bearing on our own inner and outer life or the life of others, reveal elements of our or their mental being and life-being or disclose influences on them of which our waking self is totally ...
... mental consciousness it takes my form. So he sees it.... It is not my whole being... but it is something of myself.... certainly, it has a significance... mostly even a very precise aim... Symbolic dreams are usually very coherent, one remembers everything, to the least detail... more living, more real more intense than the material life.... The Mother ...
... Finally, there can come to us the records of happenings seen or experienced by us on other planes of our own being or of universal being into which we enter: these have sometimes, like the symbolic dreams, a strong bearing on our own inner and outer life or the life of others, reveal elements of our or their mental being and life-being or Page 235 disclose influences on them of ...
... Another striking resemblance between Sri Aurobindo's description of the subliminal and Jung's view of the collective unconscious lies in tracing the source of predictive, veridical and deeply symbolic dreams. According to Sri Aurobindo such dreams, which Jung ascribed to the collective unconscious, come from the subliminal, which he described as "a greater dream-builder" 34 than the subconscient. ...
... coherence. Finally, there can come to us the records of happenings seen or experienced by us on other planes of our own being or of universal being into which we enter: these have sometimes, like the symbolic dreams, a strong bearing on our own inner and outer life or the life of others, reveal elements of our or their mental being and life-being or disclose influences on them of which our waking self is totally ...
... coherence. Finally, there can come to us the records of happenings seen or experienced by us on other planes of our own being or of universal being into which we enter: these have sometimes, like the symbolic dreams, a strong bearing on our own inner and outer life or the life of others, reveal elements of our or their mental being and life - being or disclose influences on them of which our waking self is ...
... with closed eyes, one can Page 127 have visions with open eyes; while when dreaming one is always asleep. Any other questions? How can we distinguish between a symbolic dream and other dreams? For each one it is different; but it is a question of the impression one has. Usually the symbolic dream is much clearer, more precise, more coordinated, and carries with it a kind of consciousness... Sweet Mother, what is the difference between a symbolic dream and a vision? Usually one has a vision when one is not asleep, when one is awake. When one is awake and enters within oneself—whether in meditation or concentration—one has visions. Or at night you can't sleep... remain stretched out, remain quiet, don't sleep and you may have visions. Dreams come when one is asleep, that is, when one... Mother, do we need to dream? Do we what?... ...need to dream?... Need to dream! But it's not a question of need, my child, one always dreams. But why do we dream? Why do you walk on your feet, with the head in the air, and why do you eat and sleep? It is like that. There is no why about it. There is no why, it is part of the general functioning. Dreams are not something imposed ...
... or useful are the most tiring. Difference between a symbolic dream and a vision—usually, one has a vision when one is not asleep, when one is awake. When one is awake and enters within oneself—whether in meditation or concentration—one has visions. Or at night you can't sleep... remain stretched out, quiet and you may have visions. Dreams come when one is asleep... when one has no longer the waking... which wake up and manage to pass their experiences to the outer consciousness.... One can have visions with closed eyes, one can have visions with open eyes; while when dreaming one is always asleep. Usually, the symbolic dream is much clearer, more precise, more coordinated, and carries with it a kind of consciousness of something which is true... one remembers it better.... ... according to... Dreams - Extracts from the Writings of the Mother Visions of Champaklal Dreams - Types, Importance, Utility The great majority of dreams have no other value than that of a purely mechanical and uncontrolled activity of the physical brain, in which certain cells continue to function during sleep as generators of sensory images and impressions conforming ...
... to you in your waking state, because you are not in the habit of noting or recognizing it normally, but which you feel in some way doing harm. All these things may appear to you in a revealing symbolic dream. Things are clear which were obscure before. And this does not depend upon what you have been or were doing the whole day long, but much upon the way in which you get into sleep. A minute of sincere... activity in your past night. Remain concentrated and always still and immobile, gradually something like the tail-end of a dream appears and if you pull at it, follow it up, that is to say, backward —always keeping yourself quiet—you can recollect practically the whole of your dream, quite an interesting activity of yours in the night. You do many things at night in your sleep. You forget most... sleep is wasted in all kinds of disorderly movements: you toss about in your bed, kick and jump and even talk and shout. That means you have no rest at all. Usually there is a whole group of dreams, useless and tiresome, that prevent you from resting. You must avoid all that. You can avoid them, if just before you go to sleep you make a little effort at concentration, that is to say, try to be ...
... you in your waking state, because you are not in the habit of noticing or recognizing it normally, but which you feel in some way doing you harm. All these things may appear to you in a revealing symbolic dream. Things are clear which were obscure before. And this does not depend upon what you have been or were doing the whole day long, but much upon the way in which' you get into sleep. A minute of sincere... activity in your past night. Remain concentrated and always still and immobile, gradually something like the tail-end of a dream appears and if you pull at it, follow it up, that is to say, backward – always keeping yourself quiet – you can recollect practically the whole of your dream, quite an interesting activity of yours in the night. You do many things at night in your sleep. You forget most of... relation with what is best in yourself, through an aspiration or a prayer. You do that and go to sleep. Now, if you have done your concentration in some way successfully, you are likely to get a kind of dreams, rather experiences in sleep which you remember, which are useful indications or signs about problems for which you had Page 22 had no answer; it may be on the subject of certain c ...
... ( silence ) Apart from that I have nothing.... Some "dreams"—not dreams: the night activities have become very clear, very interesting, but sometimes it's a symbolic dream. And it's so concrete and real.... I've never had such dreams before. Very instructive. Page 209 But then, there's a phenomenon. It's a world (this symbolic world) without distinction between the living and the dead... It doesn't have the same concrete reality, it's symbolic. For instance, money was symbolized as a certain food (asparagus, in fact! But not asparagus as we have here: it was big like this [gesture about a foot and a half] ), and one could organize it, receive and arrange it, as you would arrange food, but it wasn't put into the mouth (that's symbolic). But then, what would materialise isn't this... people, who are alive, and Amrita was like the others... except that he was a bit... ( tired or apathetic gesture ), but that must have been in his nature: no inclination to intervene. It was a symbolic translation of an activity concerning money, but then, instead of money it was food, but it was clearly an activity about money: people's various attitudes and the reception, utilization and so on ...
... little girl and goes out .) × Note that a few days earlier [the night of February 12], a disciple had a very symbolic dream in which she saw all the disciples gathered near the Ashram's main gate with an air of consternation, as though something had happened to Mother. ... difficulties. ) A great deal has been brought to light since that experience.... It has been the starting point for such turmoil , even physically, such strong jolts that I might have wondered, 'Was I dreaming or was it real?'.... And more and more I am coming to understand that this is the INDISPENSABLE preparation in the most material world for that experience to become definitively established, to express ...
... simply a symbolic dream in the vital indicating a tendency or possibility. There was another dream: I felt as if two parts of the being — one turned towards light and the other towards ignorance — came out of the body. They fought a duel. It was not clear who won, but I afterwards experienced a sort of release in the consciousness. It was probably not a dream, but an experience... progress. What should we try to understand about dreams? Page 221 Simply to make precise where you are in the dream state. In a dream I saw X who had my time-piece. First he went straight to Arjava and then told me, "Now I will repair your time-piece." Does not this dream differ from the previous ones of memory? For I never asked him to... is not symbolic, so you can't ask what it signifies—it was a thing that happened, just as on the physical plane Mother might put something on you. In today's dream I went to the Ashram Dining Room ( Aroume). Casually I paid a visit to Y. As I was approaching him I felt as if stepping towards a psychic being! His psychic is very prominent. A dream: I went ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1962 May 31, 1962 So, how was your night? The same? Not so great. The same. I had a symbolic dream (quite symbolic!)—that's all I could recall this morning.... I was wearing a very cumbersome sort of garment, full of big thorns... Oh, horrible! ... so I couldn't find a comfortable position.... ) Oh, whatever we want to do, immediately there's a complication, a difficulty.... Yes, these dreams arise from the subconscient; they are primarily subconscious habits.... But the pain, the thorns in the garment—it's so clear! ( Mother laughs ) And no way to get comfortable! In the past, a dream like that would nag me for hours, I would worry, wondering what calamities were going to befall me... something from outside also be provoking it...? And the dreams it gives me! Oh, there's a whole series of them, with particular styles and categories.... You start down a flight of stairs—no more stairs; you want to take a certain road—the road closes; you want to catch someone—you can't. All kinds of things. And although these dreams (I have a whole collection of them, in fact) recur with certain ...
... quarters of the things I remember are kinds of sewers, loathsome places. It's... it's terrible. Yes, that's right. If you knew what I am shown!... Two or three nights ago also, I had a symbolic dream. You know that it's your old mosquito netting that was installed in my room? Yes. Well, a little being had made a hole in it. A being intimate enough because I caught it as you would a ...
... sometimes we dream of ordinary things, but sometimes we have dreams which are not... Yes, that's what Sri Aurobindo says, doesn't he? He says that all dreams are not ordinary dreams, associations of memories, that there are dreams which are revelations. He describes all kinds and types of dreams here. Mother, does this depend on the day? If one is more conscious in the day, one will have dreams of a... you have the context of your dream one can't explain it. But you should have what we could call a jurisprudence of your dreams. You have never compared the dream with the events which occur?... for example, hasn't it happened to you—I know it has—that you see someone dying and this person really dies? But you don't see him dying again a second time. If you see the same dream twice, it means one of two... waking consciousness—because you are so accustomed to it that you are not aware of it—but something that harms your development and obscures your consciousness, and which appears to you in a symbolic revelatory dream, and you become clearly aware of the thing, then you can act upon it. It depends not on what one was during the day, because this doesn't always have much effect upon the night, but on ...
... perhaps at the cost of a lowering in the general consciousness of its activities. First, about the conditions of the collective yoga, the Mother had a symbolic dream on the night of 2 July, and she spoke about it the next day in the Playground. The dream or vision was of an immense hotel "in which all earthly possibilities were accommodated in different rooms", but everything was in a state of constant ...
... physical inertia still keeps a certain hold of recurrence and a besieging potentiality. From the alasya comes pramada, a negligence and confusion in the action of thought and perception. Coherent symbolic dream in Samadhi 29 June 1919 In samadhi coherence gained ground in the lipi. There was a whole passage written successively with perfect coherence of thought and word, in spite of one or two attempts... another time and under other circumstances Samadhi, in deep nidra, was entirely of the ideality, where not drowned in tamas, though of a dream ideality, more than the gnosis of actuality. In lighter sleep there was no nidra or dream, but pure samadhi, dream being replaced by definite, coherent and intelligible vision of other worlds etc; all was besides of the highest ideality, which took entire... roga, cough at night; K.A fitful and uncertain. In Samadhi growth of frequency of stability in shadowy rupas. Some progress of sahitya. 6 July 1919 In the early morning incoherent dream turned suddenly into dream symbol recurring and progressing even after intermediate wakings. Ideality of a loose kind in the nidra. Trikaldrishti, tapas, telepathy are now combining definitely into one movement ...
... to the Soviet gymnasts 623 sees Vinoba Bhave 623-4 visits Ananta's island 624 opens the Delhi Branch and the Mother's School 624-5 Page 907 suffers hemorrhage in left eye 633 symbolic dream of the Ashram as a big hotel 636-8 identification with Nature 655 promise of Nature's collaboration 655-6 in the supramental on 3 February 1958 657ff using her 'new' force to cure 661... its research in Yoga 754 cats educating their kittens 218-20, 560 animal behaviour and human perversion 219-20, 540, 560-1, 651, 667 lower (human) and higher (spiritual) law 300, 331, 633-4 symbolic character of human body 302, 562, 653, 752 memories in deep consciousness 302-3, 523, 750 Art as Yoga 303-4 ideas of Good and Evil 303, 659 falsity of its dichotomy 711 sorting true... nature 37, 43, 51, 59-60, 69, 181, 330-1, 510-7, 525-7, 541, 556-9, 562, 567-8, 598, 605, 622-3, 630, 635, 642-3, 645-7, 664-5, 672-3, 701-2, 720, 747, 754, 767, 769, 784, 800-1, 824 (cf 295-6) Dreams 38-40 suffering 40-2, 59, 79, 743, 747 the supreme discovery 42 present (7th) creation and pralaya 51, 523, 593, 598, 634-5, 672, 741, 806, 812 fall of the cardinal Emanations 208-9, 593, 602 ...
... come. 2) वैतथ्यं सर्वभावानां स्वप्न आहुर्मनीषिणः— ie Dream is a distortion, swapnasamadhi only gives truth of swapna, true dream can only be vision of samadhi, & it is to prepare vision of samadhi, Page 453 not sanvrita but vivrita, that long connected dream is being slowly established. Even symbolic dream must become symbolic vision. 3) স্বত্বাধিকারী শ্রীঅখিলচন্দ্র দত্ত ie Swarat—cosmic... much to other karma as to kriti. At night the dreams were once more coherent but suffered from distortion by present ego & association; it is notable that when coherent dream is strong, swapna samadhi is temporarily suspended. This is due to the unsettled movement for the replacement Page 455 of incoherent dream by coherent & coherent dream by swapnasamadhi. Rupa in the jagrat cannot yet... raudra tries to disengage itself from the association of its usual internal physical causes, such as disease, etc. Strong renewal of the Parabrahmadarshana of two years ago. In dream a single subject persisted through many dreams. Prolonged discomfort in forms usually obstinate to amelioration were turned into ananda. 17 April 1914 Srikrishnadarshana is now generalising itself in objects, qualities ...
... symbol of the radical transformation of human nature.” Sri Aurobindo wrote: “It was a good symbolic dream and your interpretation seems to me correct except for one detail. The sea cannot be the tide of vital desires; it must be the flood of the world forces.” (9 January 1932) The second dream: A few of us were walking along a sea-shore. The sea was not at all like the one normally known... how, I thought in wonder, the Mother transmutes our offering of brass into gold. Now I shall relate two strange dreams of mine. They were so clear and distinct that I took them to be more than dreams. Whatever significance they had for me, I communicated it to the Mother. The first dream: “I saw from inside a room the sea coming near the house and then beginning to swell into huge mountains. If... in the dream. Daunted by nothing, with eyes fixed upon the island, I advanced and Sri Aurobindo delivered me. Though a dream it was, it brought an inexpressible taste of delight not to be affected by anything. I was to see the Mother the next morning. So I told her orally the dream. She heard intently and placed her hand for a long while on my head and said sweetly, “It is not a mere dream.” She ...
... instead of being, you know what I mean, stranded! Curious, though, that such a rod should come to lend a helping rod-hand to such a fellow in such a fashion, what? It was of course a symbolic dream, that is, not a dream at I all. And nothing curious about the rod taking it into its head I to help you like that: it was there for that purpose, if you I know what I mean, to help you—once you could take... plane from which it comes. Usually, however, this is in the waking state and the contact is not so vivid as that felt by Raihana. There are such things as dream inspirations—it is rare, however, that these are of any value. For the dreams of most people are recorded by the subconscient. Either the whole thing is a creation of the subconscient and turns out, if recorded, to be incoherent and lacking... importance but very useful to a Yogi. In short, vision is a great instrument though not absolutely indispensable. But, as I have suggested, there are visions and visions, just as there are dreams and dreams, and one has to develop discrimination and a sense of values and kinds and know how to understand and make use of these things. But that is too big and intricate a matter to be pursued now. ...
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