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  SRIMATE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA
I think ,one should not brush aside the injunctions of scriptures.You can do 
away with rituals when you are in a state of realisation but when you perform 
your mundane duties,you cannot ignore religious duties.AJAAYAMANO BAHUDAA 
VIJAAYATE is meant for the LORD & not for jeevas.
dasan


On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 tatachar@xxxxxxx wrote :
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> >>I personally feel, dreams come when we do not have proper sleep and it does 
> >>not have any influence on us.<<
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>Dreams are an essential phenomenon.
>Seem to be more important or as important as sleep it self.
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>Here is teh response, I sent o Ms. Sripriya:
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>Dear Ms. Sripriya,
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>Sorry to hear about your cousin. One of the mind's most exciting creations is 
>the dream. Hope the dreams help you to heal your loss.
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>Dreams are the portals through which we gain access to the unconscious and its 
>miraculous content and process. As for as we can tell, for the first time, it 
>is the Upanishadic Royal seers who consciously discussed our unconscious. They 
>talked about the dream state. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad is one such example.
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>We do not know what exactly exists in our unconscious mind, precisely because 
>it is unconscious! -- but the dream is our greatest and most prolific tool for 
>comprehending what we have stored in this vast part of the mind.
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>In my own experience, usually whatever is bothering me within, fear, 
>uncertainty, unfulfilled desires/fantasies,
>anxiety, etc. often make up dreams.
>Rarely, my pleasant experiences show up in the dream-
>they come to my memory when I am awake or at times I may go to sleep thinking 
>of those pleasant experiences.
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>These are somethings I found on the internet on what the modern thinkers have 
>to say on dreams:
>Well, there are many theories out there to explain why we have dreams. Evans 
>(a psychologist) believes that dreaming is our body's way of storing 
>information... while Crick and Mitchinson believe that dreaming is our mind 
>dumping the information. Freud thinks that dreams carry information about our 
>hidden desires. Finally, Jung thinks that dreams carry meaning... and the 
>dreamer can interpret their dreams.
>Pagans believe that dreams have meanings in them. Certian things in dreams can 
>symbolize different meanings of what is happening or will happen in the 
>person's life.<<<
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>Soul it self is never born and never dies. "a-jaaya maano bahudaa vijaayate"
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>I don't think we should attach too much value or meaning to death ceremonies. 
>They are meant for the alive to handle grief with some activity and sort of 
>social welfare (feeding and monitory gifts to people). In this day and age we 
>have numerous other things to keep busy, and other means of social welfare.   
>In the Bhagavadgita, the lord was not at all bothered about Arjuna's concern 
>about "patanti pitarohyeshaam lupta pinDodaka kriyaah" (ancestors are doomed 
>because of absence of water and food offerings). What's good enough for the 
>lord is good enough for us.
>It is okay to keep thetradition, without reading too much into it.
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>K. Sreekrishna Tatachar
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