Two of My Dreams About God

I have had several dreams about God.

Here is my account of the first dream, which was sometime in the Winter of 1994.

Just as when you stand at seashore...
and you can see to the horizon...
the curvature of the earth...
In the dream, I could see to the horizon... and I saw a little, triangular cloud on horizon...
and in dream, I instantly knew it was Bhagawan... (which means He who possesses every wealth, every opulence)



It spoke to me, saying....

"I am coming to see you"

The voice was the same intensity and clarity... whether the cloud was far away or up close
So the cloud came to me... and it was enormous.... and eclipsed all else... and inside the cloud...
I saw the swirling, alternating images, in no particular order, of ...
Lord Krishna Lord Buddha Lord Jesus
which were the three religions that I had seriously practiced in my life... I could also see other images... but not distinct... and after I woke...
I decided that these were other Avataric forms.... of religions I had not practiced...
So I could not recognize them clearly
I knew that I was supposed to hold up my right hand to the cloud
and He/It - (genderless you understand, but English language always says
He for God)... It inscribed red glowing symbols in the palm of my hand...
So when I looked at my palm,... I saw the swirling, alternating images of

OM, which is Hindu, ... The Wheel of The Dharma, which is Buddhist, and Yin Yang, which is Taoist... (but no Christian symbol appeared in my hand)

In dream, I knew that it was a good thing, gift, and a sign that one day I would achieve God-Realization. So I looked at the Cloud, and said,...


"Why do you do such a nice thing for me... when so many times in my life...
... I have cursed you bitterly for creating existence, and putting me in it to suffer



It answered saying


"Although I am in every religion, I am beyond all religions...

I am beyond all dualities... of Good / Evil, of Love / Hate, of Pleasure/Pain....
.... your anger, your bitterness,

does not bother Me at all....

there is no "bad" thing which you could do,
.... or "good" thing which you could fail to do...
which would prevent Me from perfecting you to that purpose
for which I ultimately created you.


So, in the dream , I said

"I have just one question...

(I was not conscious of this question in waking life)

I asked,

"Is it true that, in this existence, we are protected by Maya (or Illusion)?"

Bhagawan answered, saying:

"Yes, this is true. If it were not for the protection of Maya...
.... you would see that I am all things, but that would be a very
difficult vision for your soul to endure...
if you were not properly prepared."

Then Bhagawan said,

"You must remain in the Samsara of Existence for a few more lifetimes,
and be purified through suffering."

And then, in the dream, Bhagawan suddenly started to depart, to go away, just like that,... slowly...
and I felt much anxiety,....

"What should I do , I thought...
Bhagawan came and did these things and said these things,... and now is just going away...
should I kneel, should I bow, should I say a prayer, should I say thank you ???


but Bhagawan knew my thoughts and answered me saying ...

"I do not need your prayers. I DO NOT NEED ANYTHING...
if prayers and worship are necessary,
they are necessary FOR YOU...
they are not necessary TO ME..
this is not a QUID-PRO-QUO relationship,
you do something for Me, I do something for you...
you dont do something for Me,
I dont do something for you....
No... thats not the way it works...

and then I woke up...

SECOND DREAM

Here is an account of the second dream I had regarding God:


Today, as I am writing, it is Friday morning, August 16, 2002. In
the wee hours of Wednesday morning, August 14, I awoke from a most
unusual dream. As I slowly awakened, I smiled and chuckled to
myself, "I was dreaming about Lord Krishna." But suddenly, as I
became more fully awake, I did one of those movie-cartoon
double-takes, "Wait! I had a dream about Lord Krishna!" I suddenly
realized the rarity and significance of such a dream.


I read that the Pope, shortly after his election, had a dream about
some urgent problem in the Catholic church. As he began to awaken,
he said to himself, "Oh, I must speak to the Pope at once about this
matter." But then, as he became more fully awake, he suddenly
realized, "Wait, I AM the Pope!"


By way of explanation, for readers who might not be familiar with
these matters, Lord Krishna is the subject of the Bhagavad-gita,
which is actually one Book or Chapter in the Mahabharat. Lord
Krishna is an Avatar (One Who comes down) or Incarnation of Lord
Vishnu. Lord Vishnu, in turn, is one of the three Persons of the
Hindu Trinity of Bramha, Vishnu, Shiva (who are seen as the Creative,
Preserving and Destructive aspects of God). A belief in Lord Krishna
as "God in human form" is analogous to the Christian belief that God
incarnates and takes human form as Jesus Christ.



In my dream, Lord Krishna was sitting right before me, facing me.
His eyes were His most amazing and memorable feature, lotus-like,
large and limpid, filled with feeling and knowing compassion. Also
with us in this dream were my 18 year-old stepson, who is Catholic,
and my 84 year-old father, who describes himself as an Atheist.


What was said in the dream was of great importance, but what
impressed me more about the dream was that there was much to be
learned from the nonverbal aspects of the dream (or the dream’s "body
language" if you will, which I will attempt to explain as I narrate
the dream).


In my dream, the first thing I did was ask Lord Krishna a direct
question: "Is it true that no one, not even God, can completely know
and understand and experience Being (Existence) without incarnating
and taking bodily form and experiencing Reality as a finite embodied
being?" Upon hearing my question (though He seemed to hear as one
distracted by many other concerns Who has very briefly consented to
an audience), Lord Krishna looked directly at me for a moment with
utmost intensity (gathering His attention away from that myriad of
other matters), smiled knowingly, almost ironically, and then ever so
slightly and with some air of reluctance, nodded as if to
answer "Yes, this is true, even We (Lord Krishna) must incarnate to
fully experience Being, but this is an intimate secret of Our nature,
and since you surprise Us by stumbling upon such an important
question, We shall subtly indicate to you the truth about incarnation
and avatar-hood with a nod, but Our answer shall be an unspoken one,
since We do not care to have Our words quoted or misquoted."


My second and final question to Lord Krishna was a request: "Could
You please show to me your Universal Form so that my faith and
understanding might be strengthened and confirmed." (You may see a
painting of Lord Krishna’s Universal Form at page 309 of my website,


Lord Krishna immediately began to kaleidoscopically transform before
my eyes with blinding speed into countless forms, some beautiful,
some terrifying. The emotions which I felt seeing this were awe,
wonder, amazement and dread, accompanied by the horripulation (hair
standing on end) which is described in various Hindu writings.


But equally incredible, in this dream, was that I glanced at my
stepson, during Lord Krishna’s transmogrification, and to my
amazement, saw that my stepson was also displaying the Universal
Form, like a mirror reflecting everything that I was seeing in Lord
Krishna.

If you stand beneath a leafy tree on a bright, sunny day, you will notice
in the shadow of the tree on the ground, little specks of sunlight.
I never realized what those little spots of light actually are,
until one day there was a partial eclipse of the sun and I was standing
under a tree. As I watched those many spots of light in the shadow, they
also partially eclipsed. Those spots of light are not simply fragments or
rays of light, as I had always assumed, but are actually camera obscura images
of the sun itself, and mimic the sun. The "lens" which focuses those images
is the tiny paths or openings between all the leaves. My point in mentioning
this is that my stepson also displayed the transformations in the dream because
each person is like one of those camera obscura images of the sun, mirroring
and mimicking the sun’s image.


After a few moments, Lord Krishna returned to his familiar and
friendly, Lotus-eyed form, and then disappeared.


I looked at my father, to see his reaction to all that we had
witnessed, thinking "surely having experienced these things, he will
no longer be an atheist, but will have some belief." But my father
saw and heard nothing. He walked over to a small table which had
some incense burning, sniffed the smoke and said "these must be drugs
of some sort, for you two to make such fantastic claims." My father
having said this, the dream ended and I awoke.