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Namah The transcendent function of dreams

first time I saw — it was the first time — Sri “Mon petit, EVERYTHING is possible, and not
Aurobindo drove the car. He was driving only possible: everything is. But everything isn’t
the car, I was there right behind him, and on earth, of course. You understand, there are
then the whole world seemed to be there. But many worlds, many regions — there is nothing
between me and Sri Aurobindo, that is to say, that is impossible and that isn’t: if a thing is
between the world and Sri Aurobindo, there possible, it means it exists somewhere…
was what looked like one of those screens at
the front [a windshield], but it was a mat so “It must be a region intermediary between
that one couldn’t see through. I myself could the most material physical, vital and mind.
see, but the others couldn’t, and I saw Sri There’s everything imaginable, you can see the
Aurobindo at the wheel, and he was the one most extraordinary things. And that’s how
who was driving. He was… ageless, with an it is. Strangely, even, you have a power there:
extraordinary power, and a MASTERY in the one drop of truth has a tremendous power in
driving, extraordinary! And it was as if… he those worlds. With a single movement you
were beginning to drive the world. can change lots of things. Only, of course, you
also create them in the same way: the contrary
“I said to myself, ‘How come …?’ It’s the movement, the movement of ignorance (all
first time. I see him almost every night, but the movements of ignorance in the world)
always busy, going here and there, doing this create things all the time. That is to say,
or staying still or seeing people, or apparently it means shaping things, or making them
doing nothing. But here, he was driving the active, or having them act.... Only, it’s a reality
car — it was the car of the world — and which … which is impermanent, to begin
there was a screen so people wouldn’t see with. Ultimately, very few forms - forms or
it was him.... The whole, entire world was thoughts — have an eternal reality: all that
at the back, and people didn’t know, but it (Mother makes a gesture of perpetual recasting)
was driven with extraordinary sureness and is constantly moving and changing (13).”
speed. The Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s teachings
on sleep and dreams are compiled in a book
“When I woke up, I had the impression that titled The Yoga of Sleep and Dream: The Night-
something had really changed. It’s obviously School of Sadhana. Sri Aurobindo says:
the coming of the centenary [in 1972].... Still,
there was a screen, but he was the one who “Sleep changes into an inner mode of con-
was driving. sciousness in which the sadhana can
continue as much as in the waking state, and
“Now I understand my vision. It was that force, at the same time one is able to enter into other
that power in him… it was tremendous (12).” planes of consciousness than the physical and
command an immense range of informative
The Mother would frequently ask her and utilisable experience (14).”
disciples how they were faring in their dream-
lives. Once a disciple asked if something she In the Indian wisdom texts, the dream
had seen was possible and where had she world is treated just as real as the world of
been in her dream.The Mother replied: the awakened state. The Mandukya Upanissad

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