[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Holy persons in dream - Shastra question

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste sAkShi ji

There is an interesting passage regarding the dream study of Shankara
bhAShya (of passages not studies earlier), by Sri Abhinava Vidya Tirtha
MahasvAmI) -

" The following conversation took place at Sringeri, in May 1975.
There was a prelude to it. I submitted to Acharyal that while at Madras
I had, on successive nights, dreams of Acharyal gracing me by teaching
me Bhagavatpāda's bhāṣya on the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgītā . The
class in one dream had continued in the next. Till that time,
I had not studied Bhagavatpāda's Gītā-bhāṣya.
Acharyal asked, “Do you recall the clarifications that you heard?”
“By Acharyal’s grace, I remember them fully as also the words of
the bhāṣya on the verses dealing with the practice and fruit of
meditation,” I replied. Acharyal sent for the Gītā-bhāṣya. He then
asked me to recount the commentary on the “śanaiśśanairuparamet…”
and “yato yato niścarati...” verses. I obeyed. Acharyal read out a
passage from Bhagavatpāda's introduction to the chapter and asked
me to explain it. Without making any comment on my response, He
instructed me to resolve, according to what I had heard, an
apparent contradiction in a verse. Finally, He asked me in which of
two senses a word had been used in the bhāṣya.
When I finished replying, Acharyal was all smiles. Patting me on my
shoulder, He said, “Your answers fully conform to what I would
have told you if I were teaching you the bhāṣya now. There is no doubt
that God graced you by teaching you through those dreams.
Because of your devotion to Me you see Me having effected them but I
am just an ordinary man. I can particularly appreciate your
experience because I had a similar one when I was young.” This is
what preceded the conversation given below.]
Acharyal: Parameśvara (Śiva) instructed Me about yoga through
seven dreams that occurred on successive nights. Each dream was
a continuation of the preceding one. Do you want to hear about them?
I: Very much." ......it goes on


Also the dream sadhana of gayatri mantra

"Sri Srinivasa Sastry used to perform His nityakarmā (scripturallyordained
religious observances to be practised regularly) with
meticulous care. Acharyal told me in 1982, “I felt a great fondness for
the Gāyatrī-mantra and started chanting it mentally whenever I
could, right from the day of My upanayana. In about a month’s time, I was
able to do so even while engaged in My regular activities. I was
happy to find that I soon mentally repeated the Gāyatrī during My
dreams too. I did not disclose My practice to anyone.”


It goes without saying that all such dream experience has to be correlated
with waking analysis - otherwise it has to be ignored.

This is Jfyi

Om
Raghav



On Wed, 30 Oct, 2024, 12:01 am V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:01 PM aham brahmaasmi <
> ahambrahmaasmi137 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > नम: विद्वद्भ्य: !
> >
> > I heard in a lecture by a vidwan,  that there is a shastra that accepts
> as
> > true if one sees Holy personages in dream.  If my understanding of that
> > talk is correct, please, what is this shastra called? Where can one know
> > more about it?
> >
>
> A dream where one sees a holy person is not true; it is false just like any
> other dream.  It differs in the aspect that 1. it is an indication of some
> purity of the dreamer's mind and 2. it may be indicative of a grace he is
> receiving.
>
> A teaching received in the dream from a holy person, if not contradicting
> the general teaching of Dharma, can be taken further in the waking by the
> dreamer in his sadhana.  A mantropadesha had in a dream is of this nature.
> If a teaching or advice received from a holy person or Ishwara in a dream
> is against Dharma, such a teaching is to be discarded and not to be
> pursued.    Please read pages 57 and 58 of this book:
>
> https://mokshaclub.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/yep.pdf
>
> There is a svapna shaastra which I have not seen though.
>
> warm regards
> subbu
>
>
>
> > साधुवादा: !
> > साक्षी !
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