Concentric Dreams
The hero of this story is a bhikshu. He had been trained in
the Tantrik tradition and could practice various Samadhis with ease. As we are
aware, the end-point of any Sadhana is
the complete purification of Sadhaka’s mind. The bhikshu of this story had
already attained it. One good thing about such purity was that the bhikshu could make anything happen! An intense wish for any kind of gain will come true!
Visualise anything with a pure heart, and it is all yours! The process is as
simple as “water getting heated up forming into bubbles”.
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| K.G. Narendrababu - Divine Dream |
One day the bhikshu was taking a break between meditations
and a freak thought crossed his mind.
Come on…I’m going to live like an ordinary man for some
time…
The Lord has his own Lila and I will have mine..
Then he turned into a down-to-earth plebian, just another
man-on-the-street.
The bhikshu adopted a new name too, Jeevadan and started
carrying out the mundane business of day-to-day life. In reality he didn’t move
or shake anything, he was just sitting at a place cross-legged! It was the
sankalpa at work!
So he arrived in a city and was wandering through the
streets. There was a long queue before a watering hole and he too wanted to get
drunk. He had his fill and parked himself comfortably by the side-walk. He slept
like a fallen tree. The dream inside the dream elevated him into a
veda-chanting Brahmin. Teaching was the vocation befitting a Brahmin and it took him to far-away
places. He was feeling tired after teaching less than average students and
dropped down exhausted. In yet another dream-inside-the-dream, he assumed
himself as a dependent king (Samanta king paying levy to the main one). The
lesser king had his grub and slept off. He too had his dream-inside-the dream.
In the concentric dream, he chucked his Samanta-hood and turned into a
full-fledged Maharaja!
The Maharajah
had a sumptuous dinner with caviar and sliced bull’s testicles in wine. Thereafter,
he went to the royal bed with punkhah-pullers and royal guards in attendance
just outside the room. Several queens and queen aspirants, all decked up and
perfumed, were waiting for a quick summons from the Maharajah. Alas! It never
came!
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| K.G.Narendrababu - Dream Way 61 |
The Maharaja
had been transformed into a Devangana (celestial beauty)! She was tired after a
satisfying session of love-making and slept off. The happiness thus generated
turned her into a deer. She rocked around a garden, so full of trees, plants
and flowers and turned into a creeper. The creeper climbed up the nearby tree and
flowered. The lovely flowers greeted the world with a wide grin which attracted
beetles. The creeper was bewitched by the beetles and became their hard-core
fan. What’s more, the creeper turned
into the beetle itself. The new beetle followed its nose and made a straight
–line path to a lotus flower in full bloom. The beetle had a brief stint with
the receptive lotus flower, when it started getting folded up. The beetle was
trapped inside.
An elephant
walked down to the pond to play dirty with the lotus flowers. Meanwhile, the
scent emanating from the lotus flowers made the animal high. It ran amok
destroying all the flowers and the beetle. Not to be out done, the beetle with
the help of sankalpa, turned itself into an elephant.
Yeah, even
animals and plants have sankalpa! Like the sprout embedded in a seed!
The new
outfit of the beetle didn’t last long, either. The elephant fell into a trap
devised by the King’s men and was taken to the rearing camp for training. Subsequently
it was inducted into the King’s army as a full-fledged , combat-ready elephant.
The war broke out when the Maharajah wanted to amass wealth for conducting yaga. A weak neighboring country was attacked.
The elephant was killed. Before its life was getting terminated, the
elephant noticed a few beetles buzzing very close to its cheek. Yet another sankalpa was created and the
dying elephant rolled back into a beetle. The whole story was getting repeated in revered
order! This time for a change, the beetle visualized a swan and became one.
Several swan-lives followed, ascending in status each time. Eventually it
reached the pinnacle. The swan became Brahmadeva’s official carrier. Once
Brahmadeva wanted to visit Rudra for courtesy’s sake and thus the swan
had his first darshan .The Lord’s presence had its had its profound influence
on the swan and it became one with Rudra. It had become Knowledge. The swan
dissolved in Rudra .
All the past
lives were recalled. Jeevadan, the Brahmin, the Maharajah, the Swan in the
lotus pond, the erratic elephant and finally Lord Rudra. Trillions of years had
passed in between. The Lord wanted to revisit each of the past lives. The idea
was to integrate every part (amsam) into a Whole (poornam).
Rudra transmitted a
small volume of his chaithanya into the bhikshu’s mind and he woke up.
He was quite
surprised to see the Lord right in front. At the same time he contained himself and kept his cool. For he knew all
the way that he was nobody other than Lord himself! Both of them continued with the journey to
find the remaining amsams. Jeevadan was located at a corner of Chidakasa. He
too was woken up. The three went ahead and found themselves in various forms at
the never-ending expanse of Chidakasa. All of them were made alive. The Lord
was beholding his own Maya.
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| K.G. Narendrababu - Dream Park |
Rudra himself in various guises. Each of them was
asked to go back to its abode,i.e., Jeevadan, Brahmin etc.
They did just
that. …occupied their respective offices…..worked out certain impressions…and
when they became worthy of retirement, they had a reunion with the top boss and
had the final exit!
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