Swapna
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A dream, treated in this stream as a channel through which a deity, guru or departed being can convey instruction, warning or a sign of an attack.
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A sadhak who began reciting the Dattatreya Vajra Kavach started seeing a young child dressed in white in his dreams from the second or third day
The speaker reports that a sadhak who began reciting the Dattatreya Vajra Kavacham started, from around the second or third day, repeatedly seeing a young child dressed in white clothes in dreams.
The same child figure began appearing in connection with a daughter-in-law suffering a brahm-avesh caused by an abhichaar worked against her
The speaker reports that about a week to ten days after the dreams began, the same child figure started appearing in connection with the sadhak's daughter-in-law, who was suffering a Brahm Avesh caused by an Abhichara worked against her.
In the dream the boy repeatedly lifted something off the daughter-in-law's head and placed it at the main chaukhat, on the very nights her affliction was at its worst
The speaker reports that in the dream, the boy was repeatedly seen lifting something off the daughter-in-law's head and placing it at the house's main Chaukhat, and that this dream reliably recurred on the nights her affliction was at its worst.
Does a recurring dream of something being removed mean an abhichaar is intensifying or lifting?
The speaker reports that although the sadhak first suspected the dream reflected the Abhichara intensifying, it was in fact followed by the daughter-in-law calming down and staying normal for two to four days each time.
The same child appeared in a dream performing a dhuni near a sick cow's nostrils, and the cow recovered about eighty percent the next day
The speaker reports that while the Vajra Kavach recitation continued, the same child appeared in a dream performing a Dhuna (smoke fumigation) near a sick cow's nostrils, and the cow recovered about eighty percent the next day.
What does it mean that Bhagwan Dattatreya is smritagami?
The speaker reports that after a full year of extensive Vajra Kavach recitation, a Deepdaan-day dream message and the boy's repeated appearance were taken as proof that Bhagwan Dattatreya is Smritagami — arriving at the mere remembrance of a devotee.
Why does a devi or devta sometimes speak to a sadhak repeatedly in a dream?
The speaker says a dream (Swapna) is a medium through which any shakti can draw close to its sadhak, and that when a sadhak has not attained Vachan Siddhi — has not awakened a deity enough for it to converse with them directly — a dream becomes that deity's sole remaining way of reaching them.
Remember the message exactly, expect it not to be literal, and never recount it to anyone
The speaker says a sadhak must remember a dream conversation with a deity correctly, that a deity very rarely states a coming matter exactly as it will happen, and that such a conversation must never be told to anyone else.
A scripture, a deity, a paath, a deep, a forgotten puja detail — or warning of an enemy's abhichaarik prayog
The speaker lists a scripture to study, a deity's form to worship, a path or japa to undertake, a deep to light, guidance on bhog-prasad-puja or a forgotten worship detail, and warning of an enemy's abhichaarik (black-magic) attack against the sadhak, and says such information often reaches the sadhak through the deity's attendant powers that regularly visit their place of worship.
The instruction arrives without its reason: judge your own avastha and voice the specific request while carrying it out
The speaker says a deity's dream instruction is rarely accompanied by an explanation, so a sadhak must work out for themselves why the instruction was given and connect it to their actual circumstances (Avastha) before carrying it out.
Why might a sadhak's own deity direct them to worship a different deity in a dream?
The speaker compares this to a teacher sending a favourite student to another teacher with a word already put in on their behalf: when a deity judges a matter falls within another deity's domain, it sends word ahead through its Gana (attendant powers) so the sadhak is favourably received there.
Devotees of Durga, Kali or Krishna who argue with the instruction instead of following it
The speaker criticizes sadhaks who, on being told in a dream to worship a deity other than their own ishta devta, resist and question the instruction out of attachment to their own deity instead of simply following it — calling this a real problem.
Carry the guided work through to completion, thank the deity repeatedly, and make no show of it
The speaker says a sadhak should correlate the dream guidance to their own situation, carry the work through to completion, repeatedly thank their deity for the guidance, and keep the whole matter confidential rather than publicizing it.
Can a bija mantra or Mahavidya mantra received in a dream be taken up for japa?
It depends, the speaker says. Ordinarily, whatever mantras are received in a dream should certainly be done mentally to some extent — 11 or 21 times at least. But if the matter of a purashcharana arises, that should be done only after discussing it once with someone capable, whom you trust and who has knowledge — because many times a subject is raised precisely in order to cause harm.
A Batuk Bhairav japa "given" to a household that worships a Dakini can corrupt that household's own shakti
The speaker's example of a subject raised to cause harm: suppose a family has a Dakini worshipped — Dakini is absolutely worshipped as a mother in villages, and they are worshipping their own. If someone wants to corrupt that household, he prescribes a Batuk Bhairav mantra vidhan, "yes, do Batuk Bhairav japa" — and if the person starts that japa, thinking it came through a dream, the condition of the worshipped shakti will go bad. The proper process, he says, is that when the mandal pujan happens, the knowledgeable one who gives the mantra first frees that Dakini, or that matrika in yogini form, by sankalpa — so that whatever pujan this person does, no effect of the japa falls on her.
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