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THE VARDAN-VIDYA INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS

The dream world is as much of the VARDAN-Vidya as it makes up the means of understanding life. The VARDAN sages of old were of the opinion that if one could understand the mystery of sleep, freedom would automatically come to them. Therefore in this chapter we are going to explore the realm of dreams and sleep. Also because it is related, we will thereby touch on the subject of visions.

Almost everyone asks, “Why do all creatures sleep?” We can also include in this plants and mineral life too, for it has been proven that even plants having consciousness will take a certain period of their day to spend in sleep. Since minerals and rocks too have a certain state of consciousness we can presume that they also sleep.

For the most part sleep is a habit, something that is certainly agreed upon as being necessary for survival. It isn’t a fact that we could do without sleep, but rather point out that we most likely sleep too much. The average person sleeps longer than necessary because sleep is a very convenient method of escape from this world of reality. When the pressures of the day push in on him, and when stress becomes too unbearable, or when he loses interest in some form of expression, he is likely to desire sleep.

Science often makes claim that sleep is a carry-over from the cell memory, when at a certain stage of life experience, man slept because it was dark and convenient at the time for sleeping. But it’s a well-known factor that during the sleep process there is a rebalancing of chemicals, life forces, and a general readjusting. It’s known that scientists have worked

with a technique of directing a flow of radiation at a person who was tired and fatigued, and by neutralizing the fatigue toxins the individual is able to retire and gain from four hours of sleep that which would be as beneficial as eight hours. This made up for a theory that perhaps someday it would be possible to do away with sleep entirely. But not for all people, there are still those who will always be in that state of consciousness of trying to escape life.

It is only during sleep that most people will automatically link up with the healing and regulating currents of the universe. It is known that one day in the future, in the next century, man will be able to do this consciously and at will. We know that the VARDAN Masters, in the Ancient Order of the Boucharan, are able to live without sleep if necessary. Army medical researchers have recently brought out that those who sleep only a few hours a night tend to be brighter and livelier doers than those who are long sleepers. The report from the army states that long sleepers are turned inward and are conflict conscious. The researchers tried to determine in their efforts the ratio between sleep and efficiency, in their study of one group of men who habitually needed no more than six hours of sleep and another group which customarily slept eight hours or longer. It was found that the short sleepers were active, outgoing men, flexible and sociable, relatively high on the social scale.

On the other hand it was found that those who were long sleepers tended to be more introverted and creative, but less successful at sustained work. Part of the reason why long sleepers sleep is that they have longer and more dreams than those needing less sleep. The more introverted people are more conflict conscious than very active people, and use the longer dream time to work on intrapsychic problems.

After 72 hours of sleep deprivation there were significant changes in all performance measures, with a marked loss of ability to concentrate and remain alert, the medical research team reported. However, I have seen Rebazar Tarzs and other great VARDAN Masters go without sleep for days because they live upon such a high level of expression, so in tune with the VARDAN, that they can operate in the body for practically 24 hours daily and never feel fatigue. Three or four hours of sleep seems to be all that is necessary for them. They live a full life, yet relaxed because they do not carry the burdens of mental and emotional strain, but have long learned to cast the burden into the VARDAN and rest in pure faith.

When any VARDAN chela is working with the VARDAN stream of power, there is little reason why the body will run down. Energy can flow through it steadily, and there will be few if any counter effects unless the Kal (negative) power gets in the way. When one resents their work, lives under great strain and stress, allows himself to worry and fear life, he causes a short circuit and the body runs down, gets out of tune and starts to malfunction.

Most people sleep one-third of one-half of their lives away. Trying to fight obstacles will not help any, but attunement with life brings victory. But they reach greater victory when the dream state is brought under control. Many persons dream vividly and in full color, with alive senses. Others dream in black and white, then only with a small amount of awareness. Some put importance on the nature of dreams and keep a daily log of them to see if there is some connection between the sleep dream and the awakened dream.

There is a connection between the dream state and the waking state, for often the dreaming is put together from the

material taken in during the awakened state. Dreams are often part of the unconscious memories and need careful analysis and understanding. The literal interpretations of dreams are too often misleading for what the world of beyond is telling the sleeper has no parallel in this world. There are many persons who have a pad of paper and pencil on the nightstand, and are able to awaken right after a dream to write it down. The next morning it could be found that certain questions were answered, or a problem solved in the dream state, and they could act upon it almost at once.

Anyone who has training can dream consciously for when he dreams and is conscious of the process, then he learns to see how this waking state is also a dream. Just as in the dream state any VARDANist can learn to manipulate the environment, do anything he desires, simply by the knowledge that it can be done. Also in this waking dream state he can do the same, when he learns the techniques of doing it.

At night when he retires it must be accepted that he is going to dream consciously, or allow the VARDAN Dream Master to take over and see that he dreams of whatever is vital to his spiritual growth. It will likely not happen during the first few times but eventually as he drifts off to sleep with the expectancy of finding his own dream state to his liking, it will be found that he is conscious of the fact that he is dreaming.

He may be playing a role in a dream experience, or may be a silent witness as others enact their roles, much in the manner of watching people on a movie screen. After this one learns to change his dream at will, changing the events, moving at will from circumstance to circumstance. Then he learns to start, stop and go forward or backwards, just as he

desires in learning that this is only a projection of his own mind and thoughts. He also learns to turn on sensation, make the dreams bright or dim, color or in black and white. If anyone wants to learn to consciously move into a new or higher plane during his dream state, he must become conscious of this sort of state in the beginning. Then he anchors his attention on some solid object in his room or if this doesn’t work tries putting it on something in the dream state. While he does this, he gives himself a command to awaken and as he anchors on to this object as a point of concentration, he will find himself rising as it were through veils of consciousness into a new plane, just as solid as the physical. If he should fail to maintain his concentration on an object in the dream, he would lose his connection and sink into a dream state and become awakened in a natural way.

This question always arises with the person who is trying to do this experiment. “What should I do if I am consciously dreaming, or in a different plane, and want to get back into the awareness of the physical body?” There is always the basic rule to follow: Assume with the sense of feeling that you are in your regular physical body, and this will be at once.

When the chela has had experience with this type exercise then he becomes a master of dimensional experience. The only reason that all people are in this particular, physical world is that they have agreed that it is the only solid and real one they know.

However, when anyone wants the experiences of dreaming of what is going to take place in his future he must take up a different approach. He must first realize that his future is set out ahead of him in accordance to his considerations and beliefs. When the seeker is able to change

his present pattern of understanding and belief, he automatically alters the future sequence of his life.

Therefore we find that it is possible to dream, and while in that state, dream of future events; for events are always a reality of the present moment. We only experience them from various points of view and this gives the concept of time. It is possible to dream of events of the future, which are lodged in the deeper recesses of the mind, but only come about in some future awakened experience.

We soon learn through the ability to manage our dreams that those experiences in this state can be changed. If some dreams bring about fears and other unpleasant experiences, we do not have to accept them, by changing our outlook on them. This can be handled without difficulty even though one doesn’t think of it being unusual. The Living VARDAN Master is always standing by in case the chela fails in his attempt to make the change. If he is called upon it is then that he, the Living VARDAN Master, steps into the life of the chela to help him change his dream state.

Some persons dream vividly, others hardly notice their dreams. Sleep and dream is normally the astral senses in action, although there are times in which the individual goes far beyond this into the true spiritual worlds. When awake man experiences through the physical senses, but when he dreams it is often through the astral senses. When one has dreamless sleep, it is through the causal or mental area of being. But when he has a deep, dreamless sleep it is closer to the pure states of heaven, in that of pure awareness, and if one awakens in this state he is apt to find himself in the true heavenly worlds.

In the field of visions it’s found that men and women both have been able to have experiences of visions throughout all religious history. But the misunderstanding which comes

with the layman’s knowledge is that he believes that all visions are given by the Supreme Deity or by grace. Just as dreams are subconscious experiences, so visions are more on the superconscious level, though it is possible for them to become mixed on both levels. All visions are filtered through the conditioned consciousness of the individual, therefore partially colored by the belief of the individual.

Dreams or visions of relatives or friends who have translated from this world are not necessarily indicative of the return of that person, though we like to think it is true. Mortal longing or we should say loneliness is the reason why these dreams and visions come about. Perhaps many times we like to think that our visions and dreams are sent to us from God. This is the Kal speaking through the ego, but it certainly isn’t truth. If you have that objective ability to understand visions and can separate such from hallucination, it could readily be seen that many persons who founded religions and sects were far from truth. These founders were unable to distinguish hallucination from truth, and in their own ignorance developed followers, who likewise believed their leader was given truth through visions.

There are religious records of individuals who have had certain types of phenomenon, of course, but this is really psychic and doesn’t represent truth. Statues have come alive and spoken, tears have appeared on saints’ faces and visions of the great saints or leaders of religions have come to certain people, thus creating new sects, religions and cults. We do not dispute this but it is one way that the Kal splits the followers of certain groups who are getting close to truth.

Very often a vision might come to the person in contemplation in symbolic form and will need interpretation. This happens because the individual is not opened enough in

the spiritual consciousness to know truth. By knowing this you then find that many of the ancient prophets who had visions did not have the higher consciousness. They were in the state of the lower consciousness which must give visions to a participant in symbols. Truth filters through the human conditioning of consciousness and breaks upon the lower, or human state at that level of man’s understanding. Few are blessed with the understanding of truth, others see visions, others have symbolic visions and many dream dreams. Once you learn to dream consciously it will break the belief in limitation. If Soul wishes to bring out that part of Itself in knowledge and truth, because It is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent there is a way of giving help from the outer consciousness. When you go into sleep, relax and agree within that upon awakening you will have an answer to whatever it is you desire. Upon awakening it’s found that it will be in the forefront of your thoughts. At the moment of slipping from sleep, or vice versa, there is a moment when you are opened to truth and in direct contact. It is at this point that Soul will reveal the answer.

Learn the value of contemplation just before retiring and upon awakening. It is to your advantage that at these points of change in consciousness awareness that we find a good time to contemplate. Therefore the problems won’t be taken into your sleep state to cause them to penetrate deeper into the human consciousness and become fixed. On the other hand if you do your contemplation periods every morning, or that of the spiritual exercises, you will be able to start the day right by moving into the higher awareness.

There is the fixed idea in man that he is hardly anything more than flesh and blood which is impermanent in this world. He must learn to understand that he is Soul, above all this. This idea of impermanency is subjected and conditioned

to limitation and being subjected to the environment. However every chela in VARDAN must break this idea, rise above it and step free of the idea of duality.

Every night before retiring, relax on the bed and watch the going to sleep process. Keep the attention at the point, between the eyebrows. As the body relaxes and the mind settles down, and the change of viewpoint takes place which we call sleep, maintain the attitude of awareness from the upper levels. You will note that the body gets quiet; the thoughts settle down, the hearing is the last to leave the human consciousness. You will be detached on the borderline state, as though in a dream. Then you will come into the state of beingness which is characterized by the clarity of mental vision, not an unconscious state of a mental fog but a level of awareness beyond the limits of mortal expression.

This viewpoint may last a moment, or for several hours, and eventually it may last through the whole night. But while the body is resting you awaken in the Atma Sarup (Soul body) which is when we find ourselves in eternity, the overcoming of death. This is the freedom which is spoken so much about in VARDANKAR.

In this state one often sees the past lives which is good because this makes for a better understanding. But if you open the reservoir of the various bodies of yourself to look at past lives via hypnosis, it is to the average person a very disturbing experience. Many experienced or advanced persons in VARDAN can progress spiritually to that point of unfoldment where the past is revealed to them. But they are also at that point of understanding that they can dismiss it without a moment’s notice, with the realization that it was much like the events of their present daily life and that all life lies in the present.

There are two kinds of people who cannot be hypnotized by the ordinary means. The first type is that person who has an aberration against being hypnotized because of fear. The second type is impossible because he has the realization that, in VARDAN, mind is a lower part of himself, and that he can control it regardless. Self-hypnotism is a part of this overall idea and should not be indulged in because of the problems which may arise from it.

People who try to condition themselves in the belief that they are of the higher consciousness, when they are not really in this state are simply deluding themselves. Often conditioning the mind by affirmations and meditations will not be of any advantage to the participant. A consciousness conditioned to the states of prosperity, emotional stability and health, is only working in the social areas of life. But this