AT THE FEET OF THE MOTHER
Ask Alok da

Can you please tell me what this dream 😴 means, it had different sequences. [1] There was a scene where I was in village and my dad give me something to eat and I toss it and there are centipede in it. I drop it and then many of them fall out and my dad pick up each in hand and I stop him but he does pick up to clean and in dream I was thinking why am I so dependent?

[2]I saw that we were my family and we were somewhere by road and my mother was giving gold to Chachi by roadside then we try to sleep,then I was in a car and that car started going backwards and I was with a team that was on internship with me. The car started flying backwards and suddenly again I saw we were on a road and it was raining then not then again on road my dad goes in the side to road, why slapped the head of my sister with a shirt and then as I’m about to sit, a car leaves from front of shop and as my dad tries to park car goes to the side of shop and there is a small slant little down there is a well..my family was in car falls into it they were slowly going down. I look for help and someone says, “kya hua kyu bulaya…chandan lagau”, he had the chandan stick in his hand ….I’m searching for someone to save them. I’m scared. I’m scared Da. Recently I heard a story of gin and my mind keeps repeating the name in head and I’m scared. I never had such harsh dream.

[1] Generally it would mean inheriting certain ambitions from the parents. These are like contaminants to the straight natural line of expression that is the demand of your nature. Yes dependency comes in the way of fulfilling the purpose for which we are born. 

[2] It is an anxiety dream stemming from fear that things will end badly and one may fall backwards. But there is also a fear of going forward as the car in front is sliding.  What is needed is to offer all these worries and fears to God and move forward in life, beyond the comfort zone of the family, with faith and trust in the Grace. Remember always that we are never alone, the Divine is always with us to help,  guide, protect. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

Share this…

Related Posts

I remember once reading in Sri Aurobindo’s commentary on the Isha Upanishad that one cannot become a Brahmin without first becoming a Kshatriya. I believe that I never had the Kshatriya element developed sufficiently within me, and it has always been a source of embarrassment and insecurity for me as a man. 💪🙏🏻🪷[…]

He said both are needed. But these are things ingrained within us. Brahmin and Kshatriya are not  soul states, inner innate temperaments and not so much of outer actions. Nevertheless everything can be developed by practice. By taking the challenges of life, through vigorous physical exercises, by praying for strength, by reading …

Read More >

Bhaiya, Rishi Panchami fast is coming up, and I read the story behind it. Honestly, I found it quite absurd. The story talks about a woman unknowingly breaking certain rules during menstruation, cooking food that her husband eats, and then both of them facing severe karmic consequences in their next life. 🪷🙏🏻 […]

Yes, all these things have been added much later and have no authority in the main  Scriptures. It is a story added in some of the Puranas, mainly I suppose to enforce rules of hygiene for women during the menstrual period. This was one of the ways to instil certain hygiene practices through fear. It has no meaning now. Most of the fasts …

Read More >

How should we understand deities like Subrahmanyeshwara (Skanda/Murugan) and Vinayaka (Ganesha)? Are they individual divine beings, cosmic powers of the One Divine, or symbols of different aspects of consciousness? How should an aspirant in Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga relate to them in practice? 🙏🏻✨

The four original gods, Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh and, behind them all Krishna, are, in their origin, the four aspects of the One Divine, named in Indian spiritual thought as Sacchidananda. Sat (सत) is infinite existence from which Brahma ji emerges. Chit is Chit-tapas, Consciousness and Force from which Hari or Vishnu ji and Hara or Shiv ji …

Read More >