unconscious mind-II ; Pujya Gurudev

Do you understand the language of your unconscious mind?

=Pt. ShriRam Sharma Acharya

The rishis had acquired clear visions of the past, present, and future through the mirror of dreams. Understanding of the language of dreams was also popular in the ancient times as a therapy. The impact of the unconscious mind in unfolding secret knowledge via the medium of dreams has been accepted in the modern times too. Significant scientific discoveries of this age also materialized through the inspirations, clues, ideas, or implications, received in the dreams: Neils Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of electronic orbits within an atom. 

This knowledge is the basis of the 20th century developments in Atomic Physics and also provided a breakthrough for making hydrogen bomb. It is amazing to note that Bohr was revealed the clue of this momentous theory in a dream, which he saw in 1919. Neilss mind was engrossed in investigating the atomic structures and properties those days when he once dreamt that he was standing right inside the corona of the Sun surrounded by boiling gases and vapors; and many planets were orbiting around him. He also saw that all these planets and stars were tied by thin threads. 
They cooled down and congregated at a common center; but were soon dispersed due to an explosion and then started rotating in different orbits around this center. This dream gave the much sought-for hint to Bohr to visualize the nucleus of an atom and the orbits of its particles moving around this core. Elias Harve of France had designed the first model of a sewing machine. Everything was working fine except that he could not think about how to put thread in the needle to facilitate continuous stitching by this machine. 

Despite various trials he could not find any solution for many days. One night he slept while thinking about the problem. When he was fast asleep, he dreamt that he had been surrounded by a group of barbarous tribes. He saw that these hunters were trying to kill him by the sharp daggers in their hands. Suddenly he noticed that there was a fine hole in the daggers sharp tip through which a piece of cloth (a flag) was hanging. The dream ended abruptly here but its memory remained fresh in Harves mind when he woke up in the morning. 

The picture of the hole in the draggers tip seen in the dream became clearer in his mind and sparked off the idea of making a sharp hole at the tip of the needle for the purpose of threading. This is how a dream led to a great invention of the modern era. Interestingly, the method of large-scale production of bullets was also learnt through a dream. Until about two centuries ago, lead balls were used in the pull and press type guns. 

These types of guns may now be seen in some backward villages, where people use them to scare away the wild animals. These guns were used in the battlefield those days. Production of the bullets was a tedious task as these were prepared by stretching lead wires or cutting lead sheets and then shaping them round. James Watt found this process too cumbersome and crude but he had no alternate solutions. His scientific instinct began searching for easier mechanisms. One of these days he dreamt that he had been blown away by stormy winds. Suddenly it started pouring. 
He was amazed to see (in the dream) that instead of water or snow this was a rain of tiny balls of lead. It clicked to him in his dream state that this was the alternative improved method of making bullets. He woke up the next moment but the clues provided by the dream were not clear to him. He had written at one plac. "I saw the same dream for four nights in a sequel. It forced me to think and decode the message conveyed by it - blow of wind, rains (stream of water) and lead balls! One idea flashed that all this is an indication of blowing the drops of melted lead in water with the help speedy winds!" The above idea materialized soon thereafter, when James Watt experimented near a water pond. Unlike today, there were no well-equipped laboratories for scientific experiments in those times. James was looking for a pool of water near a huge tree or wall. 

He found a pond right behind a church. The place was breezy too. He got the permission to climb up the wall. From there he showered the droplets of molten lead into the pond. To his surprise, these droplets of molten lead were getting converted into tiny solid balls in the pond. These were indeed the bullets he saw in the dream. Rene Descartes is honored as a great mathematician and philosopher who laid the foundation of several major principles of mathematics and hence of modern science. His invaluable contributions can be attributed to the three history making dreams, which he saw on the 10th November 1619 at around 3 a.m. in the early hours of dawn. Descartes was puzzled those days by the complexities of his own life. 

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma