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and dream as hard as you can of the condition which you want for yourself, Tinged with the colour of thought, as they necessarily are, one's dreams cannot but accord with one's most predominant wish, so that you can always make them what you wish them to be.
Thus if you want to be a millionaire, you need only think of your millions somewhat forcibly before going to sleep, and even if you be a veritable pauper in actual life, there is not the least doubt but that you will have all the wealth you are intent on acquiring the moment your eyes close in repose. There is the case of the convict whom Prof. Macran of the Dubin University encountered in one of the prisons at Rome.
“With determined effort he succeeded in having a continuous dream having an ideal life, rich possessions, beautiful wife, virtuous children and all happiness. He turned his mind to such a belief that his working as a convict was a dream and the other a reality. He was so happy in his prison cell and used to be so anxious to go into it for sleep to meet his beautiful family" (p. 12).
Dr. Khedkar (p. 42) would have it that if a person were to control his mind and remain with non-attachment in this world, he may in course of time believe this to be a dream. That is what a yogi strives to earn, * Hence, the reality of the phenomena depends on personal habits, expectations and interests for the same, The "dreamer," too, fully endorses this view when, in describing his experiments with his dream-creation, he says:
"The method proved so satisfactory that the dreamer was actually worshipped by every one of the dream-creatures and was pronounced to be the only true spiritual guide. He now considered himself in no way less fortunate than so many leaders of the various faiths, in the waking world, who enjoy the pleasure of being devotedly worshipped by their disciples. They enjoy it during the twelve hours of the day, while the dreamer enjoyed it during so many hours of night, and there seemed to be no enviable difference between the two" (the compiler's own italics).
No need to dilate any further on the point; the strangest thing about it is that it does not strike "the dreamer" to improve his condition here in this waking world, which he also regards as a dream, instead of drowning his senses in the false and artificial intoxication of some agreeable form of hallucination in dream. Our "dreamer," however, insists that he enjoys the waking state of con
* According to Babu Shivabarat Lal, a staunch follower of the Radhaswami Faith and the contributor of solution No. II printed on pp. 67--101 of the book :
"A dreamer is not a bad being......... The seers, the holy men and the prophets were all dreamers."
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