Just a chat

Last night after a Krishna Ashtami bhajan session at a devotee's place, I was blessed with a few friends and others whom Jody Cleary introduced and when they all showed interest in my new blog and wanted to listen to my dreams, I got so excited and carried away that I talked more than I listened. But they motivated me more to write about my dreams and as I have many dreams of Baba in my diary from 1972, I would start with those in my future posts.

I am sure I had dreams between 1953 and 1972. But I just cannot recall any. Between 1972 and 1982 I had not documented any dreams. December of 1982, I got myself a diary and started writing them down - just those in which Baba was present. It was Connie Shaw whom I met in the Sai group while in Colorado suggested that I keep a dream diary. Actually she conducted a workshop on dreams at the retreat and talked about recurring themes in our dreams. Then suddenly, I could recall so many frustrating non-spiritual dreams. I shall write them in a separate post. I have vivid dreams many nights. Some are symbolic to me, some reacting to my day to day frustrations, some premonition ones and some are nightmares and I bet some are due to indigestion (hahahaha). I am sure this is the general occurrence with all dreamers. Some dreams, I get the message immediately and with some, I mention to my daughter Gayatri and my daughter-in-law Suhrida. They both are good listeners and try to help me with their comments. When I wake up, I try to repeat the dream in my mind so that I won't forget it. I just cannot wait to share the dream with someone. Sometimes I come across people who are either non-dreamers, non-believers or not-so-good-listeners. Still, I feel the urgency to share my dreams.

Even during my yatras, I had non-spiritual dreams. I may have written about them in my yatra blog. Please visit www.padmainindia.blogspot.com if interested.

Beginning the next post, I will try my best to document my Baba dreams as accurately as possible.

Please feel free to interpret and comment.