Having dreams about the gods or enlightenment or metta (loving-kindness found in Buddhism) is not new for me but has ramped up recently for some reason. I’ve been lucid dreaming most nights for the past month. I used to train myself to lucid dream but stopped years ago. I haven’t picked up any of my old methods, I honestly had forgotten about lucid dreaming until it started happening again. I wake up a lot of mornings with this looming feeling that I’ve done something or figured something out that was weighing on me, but I forget what it was. It reminds me of the time I was lucid dreaming and started to interrogate myself with the Socratic method to figure out parts of myself. That dream was very blurry but I do remember walking up to a massive face sewn onto a tear in my dream cosmos. I talked to them a lot but I’ve forgotten of course what it was.
Now last night I dreamed of something. I forget what, but I woke up with an understanding of who featured in it and that it was important. I had dreamed of Durga Maa, nurturing me and giving me strength. She was a kind presence in the dream. She told me to stop worrying. I know I worry too much. It feels like drowning in a sea, I feel like one day I will be gone forever, I will have no say in my life. It could be a coincidence, I was chanting mantras all day yesterday keeping Ishvara in mind. I was rereading my old hymns and imagining writing some more with my new understanding. -Neela.
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In Shaktism there is a belief that Devi, the goddess in Hinduism, pervades the whole world and livens the cosmos up. Another name for Devi is Shakti which means power. Often the gods consorts are called their shaktis, without their wives they cannot do their jobs. She is the active creative principle (Prakriti) and Her consort is the passive creative principle (Purusha). Since Devi wakes everything up with Her power by pervading them there is a belief held by some that world is inherently more sacred than when viewed through Vaishnavism or Shaivism.
While nature spirits like yakshasas or yakshinis are viewed somewhat negatively, Devi pervading the world is viewed as good. This does seem to then deny a thought of animism until also taken into consideration Hinduism's general view on the human soul and all souls. In the Gita Krishna tells Arjuna he is within the hearts of all, even many artworks of Hanuman ji show him opening his chest to reveal Shiva and Parvati. God is within the hearts of all, animating us and reminding us to do good and follow our dharma. God is not outside the asuras and yakshasas. |
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