Dreams

There was a Mahatma who had three disciples. He would train them for spiritual knowledge.

Once he called his first student(disciple) and told him that last night he saw a frightening and funny dream. In his dream he felt that he was perspiring very badly, he whole body went numb, he was feeling breathless and some sort of shivering and nervousness. He requested his student to analyse the dream. Can you give me an explanation to this type of dream?

The first student politely went and brought a bucketful of warm water and said “You are still in a sleepy mood, please take a warm water bath, you may feel better and would wake up. The Mahatma made him sit at one side.

Then he called the second student and narrated the same dream to him and asked him to analyse the dream and give an explanation to it. The second student politely said “Sir, after taking warm water you are still feeling drowsy, I would get you a hot cup of tea”. The Mahatma made him sit besides the first student.

Finally he called his third student and told him to analyse the same dream which he had said to his first two students. The third student got excited and said “Oh, I have many books on dream analysis, I will read and let you know the meaning of it.

The Guru(Mahatma) stopped him said “You have still not matured, Are the dreams true?, Can you give an explanation to your dreams?. Please wake up, How long will you remain in dreams and rely on book knowledge. I was testing you to see how much have you learnt.

Live in Reality and do your routine work systematically without being disturbed by dreams or imaginary things.