unconscious mind-II ; Pujya Gurudev

Do you understand the language of your unconscious mind?

= Pt. ShriRam Sharma Acharya

The savants of yore seem to have a good hold on this rather occult field of knowledge. Study of dreams was an established discipline of research and practical application in the ancient times. Scriptures mention of many instances when the seers and sages had made trend-setting predictions and given guidance based on the analysis of dreams. 

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. 

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma