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Namah Vol. 32, Issue 3, 15th October 2024

“It’s obviously the coming of the centenary [in worlds. With a single movement you can change
1972].... Still, there was a screen, but he was the lots of things. Only, of course, you also create
one who was driving. them in the same way: the contrary movement,
the movement of ignorance (all the movements
“Now I understand my vision. of ignorance in the world) create things all the
time. That is to say, it means shaping things, or
“It was that force, that power in him… it was making them active, or having them act.... Only,
tremendous. (17).” it’s a reality which … which is impermanent, to
begin with. Ultimately, very few forms — forms
The Mother would frequently ask her disciples or thoughts — have an eternal reality: all that
how they were faring in their dream-lives. (Mother makes a gesture of perpetual recasting) is
Once a disciple asked if something She had constantly moving and changing (18).”
seen was possible and where had She been
in her dream. The Mother replied, “Mon The Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s teachings
petit, EVERYTHING is possible, and not only on sleep and dreams are compiled in a book
possible: everything is. But everything isn’t titled, The Yoga of Sleep and Dream: The Night-
on earth, of course. You understand, there are School of Sadhana. Sri Aurobindo states:
many worlds, many regions — there is nothing
that is impossible and that isn’t: if a thing is “Sleep changes into an inner mode of con-
possible, it means it exists somewhere… sciousness in which the sadhana can continue
as much as in the waking state, and at the same
time one is able to enter into other planes of
consciousness than the physical and command
an immense range of informative and utilisable
experience (19).”

In Indian wisdom texts, the dream-world is
treated just as real as the world of the awakened
state. The Manddukya Upanissad says the Self is
u
a
four-fold. The four are: the waking person,
the dream person, the deep sleep person, and
the fourth undefinable person. The waking
self eats gross food and is the initial and
pervasive one. The dream self is the inhabitant
in the Luminous Mind; he eats subtle food.
His characteristics are advancement and
“It must be a region intermediary between the centrality. The third is the Lord of Wisdom,
most material physical, vital and mind. There’s eater of delight, who has become Oneness.
everything imaginable, you can see the most With the quality of advancement the dream
extraordinary things. And that’s how it is. self helps the individual advance in his
Strangely, even, you have a power there: one life’s journey. With centrality it bridges the
drop of truth has a tremendous power in those waking and deep sleep states by holding

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