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 : > > > >>I personally feel, dreams come when we do not have proper sleep and it does > >>not have any influence on us.<< > >Dreams are an essential phenomenon. >Seem to be more important or as important as sleep it self. > >Here is teh response, I sent o Ms. Sripriya: > >Dear Ms. Sripriya, > >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. > >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. > >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. > > >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. > > >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.<<< > >Soul it self is never born and never dies. "a-jaaya maano bahudaa vijaayate" > >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. > > >K. Sreekrishna Tatachar > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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