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after physical union with her spouse. promise of a flourishing life, and negate Conception is possible within 72 hours. those which are meaningless. Negating The dream experience begins as soon as meaningless dreams can be done using conception takes place, hence she must be breathing exercises (Swar Sadhana) which ready for it. Whenever this experience takes are explained in Chapter 7 titled “The breath place, she must live that moment with a connection" serene mind and healthy attitude, and
Only the mother has the power to experience it fully.
alter the negativity of the unborn baby into
positivity in the womb. No one else – the The Altering of Destiny
father, the Guru, not even God himself - can As soon as the mother-to-be sees the
accomplish this task. What is significant is dreams, she must begin to reflect upon
that when the mother undertakes a sadhana, them. The sadhana that she has undertaken it becomes a boon for the child in the womb. until now empowers her to recognize the It can negate the inauspicious and usher in auspicious or inauspicious nature of her the auspicious. dreams.
If Queen Chelana had been vigilant The experience of such dreams happens with her sadhana when the desire to eat during conception as well as later in the form
her husband's heart arose within her, then of pregnancy cravings. The mother must history would have taken another turn. discriminate between the cravings that must
We need to stay away from such negative be fulfilled and the ones that need to be actions. The glory of human life lies in altered. In the same manner, she must creating a blissful future through positive welcome those dreams which contain the actions.
This sadhana is performed with meditation cards which contain images of the fourteen dreams which were seen by the mothers of the Tirthankaras. These cards are available at Anand Tirth centres listed at the end of the book. The illustrations in this book are an artist's imagination and a rare rendering of the fourteen dreams, and are not to meditated upon.
