Once a disciple approached his Guru, prostrated before His Lotus Feet on with folded hands and posed the following question:
Disciple: Oh my Revered Guru! Please tell me, what is the way to go through this cycle of births and deaths?
Guru: My dear disciple ! If you can understand who you are, then you can overcome this cycle of births and deaths.
Disciple: Oh Guru! I'm not dumb enough to not understand. There is no man on earth who does not understand himself, but every one of them are suffering their cycles of births and deaths.
Guru: No, no. You should understand the nature of body and the person it is for this body. Only then can say that one has understood itself.
Disciple: Who is the person who owns this body?
Guru: This Deha (body) belongs to Dehi (Atman). Try to understand the true nature of Atman (Supreme Being).
Disciple: not see anyone next to this body.
Guru: When this body was dreaming, who was the person who experienced your dreams? Again, during deep sleep, who was the one who enjoyed that status? When you wake up, who is the one who is aware of the real world, your dreams and the depth of sleep?
Disciple: begin to have some idea of \u200b\u200bthe nature of the Atman which is present in the three states.
In the earlier conversation between the Guru and his disciple, it is clear that the states of dreaming and deep sleep are worthy of our study to understand the true nature of the soul, and we intend to take at least some knowledge of our consciousness in the waking state.
The dream is but a disturbance of the sleep and the first study, with regard to their origin, function, purpose and meaning, will lead us naturally to study also deep sleep state.
The best way to study a subject is to trace the history and development of the hand of eminent authors and focusing our critical thinking about what we have studied in their treaties and rectify any omission, when we have a complete and satisfactory analysis on the subject.
The dream reveals itself within these unconscious mental mechanisms that evolved during its development to control and shape the primitive instinctual ego and mold to that form of conduct demanded by modern civilization. It is therefore essential to interpret dreams, to have effective knowledge of sleep as a way of operating characteristic of the psyche, that is, having the knowledge of the mechanisms of sleep and the theory of unconscious symbolism. This knowledge can be gained intellectually, through books written by authorities in the matter, but the inner conviction is the result only of personal analytic experience.
dreams should be considered as products of individual psychic, from the store of specific experiences and indeed the subject of dreams may consciously not remember or know about these experiences.
In the analysis of a dream, it seems that the assimilation by the ego of the knowledge of the unconscious mind, is an essential part of the psychic process. The underlying principle is a valid explanation for the revelation of the unknown, which is implicit in what is known in terms of the individual. This principle is found in all true interpretations of dreams.
The value of a dream lies therefore not only to discover the latest material through its content expressed, but in the language used in the narration of the dream and the associations provided by the subject, which will help them all to reveal its true meaning.
The dream and its analysis will, therefore, interesting to understand the true nature of the individual. Therefore, in the following pages we quote relevant excerpts from the lectures of Sigmund Freud, famous authority on this subject and develop further, if necessary, with the help of our knowledge of the sages and seers of India.
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