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Visions —
Experience, Transformation, Realisation
Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in
oneself.... Directly you have spiritual experience, which takes place always in
the inner consciousness, it is translated into your external consciousness and
defined there in one way or another according to your education, faith and
mental predisposition. There is only one truth, one reality, but the forms
through which it may be expressed are many.
the
mother
If the rift in the lid of the mind is made, what happens is
an opening of vision to something above us or a rising up towards it or a
descent of its power i
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DREAMS
Extracts from the Writings of The Mother
Dreams — Origin, Formation
It is sometimes said that in a man's sleep his true nature is revealed.
They are a part of the body's functioning. Dreams are as natural as
the activities of the day...
From experiments, it is concluded that mental activity never really
ceases; and it is this activity which is more or less confusedly transcribed in
our brains by what we know as dreams. Thus, whether we are aware of it or not,
we always dream.
We must therefore learn to know our dreams, and first of distinguish
between them, for they are very varied in nature and quality.
Indeed it often happens
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Dreams — How to
Remember, Interpret
By means of a dream, we participate in all
the mental activity in its smallest details. Only the cerebral transcription or
this activity is often so childish that we normally pay no attention to it.
It is interesting to note that there is
nearly always a considerable disparity between what our mental activity is in
fact and the way in which we perceive it, and especially the way in which we
remain conscious of it.
Dreams are more difficult to interpret,
since each person has his own world of dream-imagery peculiar to himself.
Dreams are peculiarly personal... they depend for
their make-up almost entirely upon th
A Letter*
14-5-79
Dear Champaklal,
I was greatly impressed by your Golden Vision. It reveals the
Mother in her full reality - not only the Universal Form of her
but also the Individual Being. People often say that now that the
Mother has left her body she is a Universal Form - as if the
bodily shape alone constituted her individuality. What you saw
shows not only the cosmic power set to greater use by her
departure from the body. What you saw shows also how closely
and organically the Universal and the Individual in her were
related and how naturally they interplay.
"It would seem that her individuality no less than her universality can now come home more vividly. Her i
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Visions —
Characteristics, Types
Usually, the vision is the expression of
the consciousness in things.
Can hallucinations be compared to
visions?
A vision is a
perception by the visual organs, of phenomena that really exist in a world
corresponding to the organ which sees. For example, to the individual vital
plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world.... In this way, one can have
visions that are vital, mental, overmental, supramental etc.
Sri Aurobindo tells us that what is termed a hallucination is
the reflection in the mind or the physical senses of that which is beyond our
mind and our ordinary senses; it is therefore not a direct
Dreams & Visions
of
Champaklal
With Sri Aurobindo's Interpretations
Strange Dreams
1929
For quiet some time now, at night, I get strange
dreams. I forget my way, come across many obstacles, but ultimately I would find
my way by the Mother's Grace and also feel Her Protection. Earlier, I did not
get such dreams at all. I used to fly straight. Why am I getting such dreams
nowadays?
You used to have dreams on the vital plane
also long ago in which you passed through dangerous forests and wilderness amid
parts of land and water and wild beasts, etc., but you reached safely under the
Mother's protection where you were going. I remembe
PREFACE
We present in this book a collection of dreams and visions of
Champaklal whose very name evokes the memories of Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother to their devotees. The collection is
prepared without any distortion from the original writings. The
word "Vision" is also used at some places to convey its wider
sense of superconscious experiences and -revelations. They are
usually symbolic, clear, precise and well coordinated. Our
purpose in presenting the dreams and visions of Champaklal is
to make available, to the present generation, one of the major
aspects of his life given in the narrations of visions as actually
"seen" by him from time to time. They are like a glorious song
o
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VISIONS
OF
CHAMPAKLAL
A Sketch after seeing the vision:
" The Vision had a marvellous effect on
my entire body.
OM, SHREEMA, M - all these symbols, the way I saw them were
looking real, alive. How can that be shown? A variety of
rays of light of various colours were spreading out from all
its sides. I could not show all these colours here. This is
an ordinary sketch from which I wanted to make a large
painting, but it does not seem possible now. It is also
difficult to write about it"
CHAMPAKLAL
All was revealed there none can here express;
Vision and dream were fables spoken by truth
Or symbols more veridical than fact,
Or were truths enforced by supernatural seals.
(Savitri, Book. I, Canto 3, p. 30)
Sri Aurobindo - 1950
2.2.1947
An increasing advance on the road to the entir
Introduction
Visions are like seedlings that could sprout into an experience
of Reality. In the highest vision of the soul, an angel is awake. Sri
Aurobindo has said,
"Vision is of value because it is, often a first key to inner
planes of one's own being and one's own consciousness as
distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic con-
sciousness."
Examples from History
The educated man. of today with his thinking mind would
tend to ask the question whether visions can be real. We have
heard of great saints like Sri Ramakrishna and Sri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu and such supreme spiritual personalities as Sri
Aurobindo, who had "seen God face to face" or