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    What is the meaning of my dream in which You gave me coins and controlled a monster fire?

    Shri Datta SwamiOctober 21, 20266 min readEnglish
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    [Shri Nava Chaitanya asked: Padanamaskaram Swamiji! Recently, I had a dream about You and I feel You were giving some important message to me through it. Could You please interpret my dream, Swami? My dream was as follows...[Click to read detailed question→]

    I was riding my bike with a friend and we reached a place where there was a masjid, a church and a Durga temple. These places of worship of the different religions were present next to each other in that residential society. Inside that society, there was a house where Phani uncle was living. I went inside that house and met Phani uncle along with Veena Datta and Manikanta. After talking with Phani uncle for some time, when we were busy doing something in the balcony, You (Swami) suddenly came to the balcony wearing a normal shirt and pants, with a plastic cover in Your hand. I was in a state of shock since we had not expected You to come there at that time. Before I realized, You went into a room. Phani uncle shouted, “Nava Chaitanya, go and do padanamaskaram to Swami (offer salutations at the feet of Swami)”. In a few moments, You came out from the room wearing a towel, ready to have a bath. I kept watching You, waiting for an opportunity to do padanamsakaram. But You walked into the washroom and turned back to close the washroom door. At that moment, You saw me in the eye and raised Your eyebrow, as if to ask “What do You want?” I signaled to You that I wanted to do padanamskaram. You accepted and I approached the washroom door and I started doing padanamskaram from outside, while You were inside washroom. As I prostrated before You, I observed some dirt on Your feet. You then closed the door to take a bath, but I was not satisfied, as everything happened in a flash. I wanted to do padanamskaram again with a calm mind. A little while later, You came out into the room after having Your bath. After some time, we entered into Your room and I did padanamskaram again. This time, as I prostrated, I observed that You were wearing socks and one of the socks was a bit torn. Meanwhile, You killed a mosquito, which was biting me. As soon as I got up, You answered a question which I asked in a WhatsAapp group. Actually, I had not asked the question in real life. I had asked the question in a WhatsAapp group in one of my previous dreams. You said: “The person who is young and doing good things deserves more respect than the old person who is doing bad things. This is correct because the old person’s sins are doubled at the end”. I had written the opposite in the WhatsApp group.

    Then we brought the chairs inside from the balcony and sat inside the room with You. We spoke with You for some time and as per Your suggestion, along with You, we moved our chairs closer to the fan. As You were talking, Swami, You slowly became younger and younger, until, at one point, I could see Phani uncle in place of You! For some time, I could only see Phani uncle who was wearing spectacles, in place of You. After discussing with Phani uncle for some time, he turned back in to You.

    You took a plate containing a lot of coins of different metals like gold, silver etc. You took a handful of coins from the plate and gave it to Veena Datta who was sitting next to me. As soon as Veena Datta took the coins given by You, he started chanting a mantra, holding the coins close to his forehead. Then You took a few coins and gave them to me. As I did not know what mantra Veena Datta was reciting and since I could not recollect any other mantra at that time, I started to recite one mantra, which I had learnt from my mother.

    You smiled and said to us “Do you think these coins are for you? These are not to take. Return them.” We retuned them. While we were with You inside the house, a huge fire broke out in the surrounding houses and I could see the face of a monster emerging from that fire. The fire was slowly consuming everything in its way and it was heading our way. A kid from the neighborhood ran into the room where we were sitting and asked You for help. You stepped out of the room and by that time, the monster fire had already entered into the balcony. But You immediately turned that monster fire into ashes.

    I do not remember what happened next in the dream. But I feel the dream carried a lot of meaning and was related to my life. I would be grateful if You could kindly reveal its meaning. Your servant, Chaitanya]

    Swami replied: O Learned and Devoted Servants of God! The essence of the dream is that you are protected by God for doing good things. In that context, the dream gives the message that age has nothing to do with the mentality acquired by the soul from previous births. Giving coins to you indicates that God helps souls by giving them wealth, but souls should show gratefulness to God by offering something back to God. If one is not grateful to God, God will take back all that is given. That is the sense conveyed by the statement “Return the coins”. This same concept is also told in the Gītā (Yo bhuṅkte stena eva saḥ…). If the devotee is true, God will turn all the uncontrollable problems into ash. The kid represents the frankness and the straightforward mentality of a true devotee, whose thoughts, words and deeds are in alignment.

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