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\n15 February 1951<\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n
\n <\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Mother reads the beginning of her talk of
\n<\/font> <\/span><\/p>\n

21 April 1929<\/font><\/span> about dreams and visions. <\/font>
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

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Often I have dreams about railways. I
\noften miss the train…<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is quite
\nsymbolical! <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

… because I have too much luggage. I run
\nafter it and at times I succeed in catching up with it and jumping into the
\nlast coach. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The train, the
\nship, and I suppose the aeroplane also are for those who do yoga, symbols of
\nthe way and of the Force that leads you \u2013 if you lose your time or if you have
\ntoo much luggage or if you think of it too late, well, you miss the way and you
\nmust run hard to catch up. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are lots of
\ndreams like that which give a very precise indication of the state you are in. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

When I was in <\/span><\/i>Calcutta<\/span><\/i>, I dreamt that someone dressed in white
\ncame to my bedside, holding the flower you have called \u201cNew Creation\u201d [the
\ntuberose]. I did not know the meaning of the flower then. It was only after my
\ncoming here that I came to know it. The form I saw resembled you. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams are very
\ninteresting, specially if one knows how to use them.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

What is the nature of a sleep without
\ndreams? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\nPage – 107<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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If one succeeds in
\nmaking the mind and vital silent, and in keeping the body well asleep, one can
\nhave a very still and quiet sleep, and then, if one can manage to get out of
\nthese forms and enter the higher worlds, one may reach the true repose of
\nSachchidananda. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

How is it that one meets and recognises in
\ndream persons whom one is going to meet and recognise later on in ordinary
\nlife? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many
\npossibilities. But most often, it is that a communication has been established
\neither on the mental or the vital plane or even on the subtle physical plane
\nand it is this communication which brings about the meeting later \u2013 your dream
\nis not only a premonition but also a condition; there is an inner relation
\nclose enough to enable you to come into contact in sleep, and circumstances so
\narrange themselves that you meet physically afterwards. Sometimes it is only a
\npremonition, but then the dream has a special quality \u2013 you see someone coming
\nand he does come physically a little later. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Generally it is an already established
\nrelation; it is someone whom you meet, whom you frequent, whom you speak to,
\nwith whom you live some hours of the night. Then afterwards when you both meet
\nyou have the impression that you know each other very well. That’s a fact, you
\nalready know each other, before having met physically. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

Are there not false visions? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If you narrate
\nsomething you have not seen, evidently that is a false vision! Also if you
\nembellish, rearrange, change your vision when you report it, this too becomes a
\nfalse vision. But if you tell in all simplicity what you have seen, what can
\nthere be false about it? Your interpretation may be false \u2013you may say, \u201cThat
\nmeans this\u201d and you make a big blunder, but what you <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 108<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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\u00a0<\/span>have seen, you have seen, and what you have
\nnot seen, you have not seen! This is something which always astounds me!…Have
\nyou seen it? If so, then you have! The explanation of what you have seen is
\nanother matter, but if you have seen something, you have seen it! <\/span><\/p>\n

This question
\ngenerally comes from those who have the habit of rearranging a little what they
\nsee. They see a tiny thing, perhaps, in a flash, and then willingly or
\nunwillingly, consciously or unconsciously they arrange things, they add a
\nlittle bit, add to it another, they give a little explanation, make the thing
\ncoherent and when it has become something that can stand on its own legs, they
\nsay, \u201cI had this vision\u201d, but it is not at all what they saw…This is a kind
\nof mental insincerity. It is spontaneous \u2013 when the mind sees one thing here,
\nanother thing there, yet a third elsewhere, this is very unpleasant for it. It
\nfills up the holes, it says, \u201cThis leads to that\u201d, \u201cThat is the cause of this\u201d,
\nand so on, and the mind is very happy because this is logical. What the mind
\nadds in between the points of the vision may happen, by chance, to be true, but
\nit may also be false.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ask yourself
\nrather whether you have a mind which keeps quiet, which is wholly sincere and
\nobjective, which says exactly what it has seen or whether you have one of those
\nminds bubbling with activity which, as soon as it has seen something, adds to
\nit its grain of salt, automatically, and makes out of it a big story; and so
\nyou are quite convinced that you have seen all that, but in fact you have not
\nseen it at all. It is in this that one can say that visions are not sincere.
\nBut that is not the fault of the vision! What you have seen, you have seen; it
\nis the fault of the interpretation or simply of the narration which was
\nembellished. I have had admirable examples! \u2013 of people who had seen truly
\nrevealing things, but who understood nothing about them. On the spur of the
\nmoment they recounted spontaneously what they had seen \u2013 in half an hour the
\nstory had become a little different, all the \u201choles\u201d were filled up and finally
\nthe story stood well on its legs! The story was idiotic, it had no sense,
\n <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 109<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

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whilst the few
\npoints they had seen were magnificent revelations. <\/span><\/p>\n

(Silence)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The capacity for visions, when it is sincere
\nand spontaneous, can put you in touch with events which you are not capable of
\nknowing in your outer consciousness…There is a very interesting fact, it is
\nthat somewhere in the terrestrial mind, somewhere in the terrestrial vital,
\nsomewhere in the subtle physical, one can find an exact, perfect, automatic
\nrecording of everything that happens. It is the most formidable memory one
\ncould imagine, which misses nothing, forgets nothing, records all. And if you
\nare able to enter into it, you can go backward, you can go forward, and in all
\ndirections, and you will have the \u201cmemory\u201d of all things \u2013 not only of things
\nof the past, but of things to come. For everything is recorded there. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>In
\nthe mental world, for instance, there is a domain of the physical mind which is
\nrelated to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon
\nearth. It is as though you were entering into innumerable vaults, one following
\nanother indefinitely, and these vaults are filled with small pigeon-holes, one
\nabove another, one above another, with tiny doors. Then if you want to know
\nsomething and if you are conscious, you look, and you see something like a
\nsmall point \u2013 a shining point; you find that this is what you wish to know and
\nyou have only to concentrate there and it opens; and when it opens, there is a
\nsort of an unrolling of something like extremely subtle manuscripts, but if
\nyour concentration is sufficiently strong you begin to read as though from a
\nbook. And you have the whole story in all its details. There are thousands of
\nthese little holes, you know; when you go for a walk there, it is as though you
\nwere walking in infinity. And in this way you can find the exact facts about
\nwhatever you want to know. But I must tell you that what you find is never what
\nhas been reported in history \u2013 histories are always planned out; I have never
\ncome across <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 110<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>a single \u201chistorical\u201d fact which is like
\nhistory. This is not to discourage you from learning history, but things are
\nlike that. Events have been quite different from the way in which they have
\nbeen reported, and for a very simple reason: the human brain is not capable of
\nrecording things with exactitude; history is built upon memories and memories
\nare always vague. If you take, for example, written memories, he who writes
\nchooses the events which have interested him, what he has seen, noticed or
\nknown, and that is always only a very small portion of the whole. When the
\nhistorian narrates, the same thing happens as with dreams where you take one
\npoint, then another, then another, and at last you can have an almost exact
\nvision of what has taken place and with a little imagination you fill up the
\ngaps; but historians relate a continuous story; between the events or moments
\nthere are gaps which they fill up as best they can or rather as they wish,
\naccording to their mental, vital and other preferences. And that comprises the
\nhistory you are made to learn. The same story, narrated in one language and in
\nanother, in one country or in another, you cannot imagine how comic it is! This
\nis particularly true if one of the countries is interested because of its
\nvanity, its prestige. And finally the two pictures presented to you are so
\ndifferent that you could believe that two different things were being spoken
\nabout. It is unbelievable. But I have noticed that even for altogether
\nexternal, concrete facts where there is no question of evaluation, it is still
\nthe same thing. No human brain is capable of understanding a thing in its
\ntotality; even the most scholarly, the most learned, even the most sincere
\nperson does not see a subject \u2013 and especially many subjects \u2013 totally. He will
\nsay what he knows, what he understands, and all that he does not know, all that
\nhe does not understand is not there, and this absolutely changes everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But if
\nyou can acquire this capability of entering into the terrestrial memory, I
\nassure you it is worth the trouble. It is quite different from Yoga; it is not
\nnecessary to have a spiritual life for that, you must have a special ability. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 111<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
\n

<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For everything \u2013I would repeat it
\nto you eternally if I had the time \u2013 for everything, one must be absolutely
\nsincere. If you are not sincere, you will begin by deceiving yourself and all
\nyour experiences will be worth nothing at all. But if you are sincere and by
\ndiscipline (for it is not easy) you succeed in entering this mental memory of
\nthe world, you will make discoveries which are really worth the trouble. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage – 112<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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