The supreme rest
By The Mother - Oct 15, 2019
Mother, you said that the sleep before midnight gives us most rest...
Physical marks appearing after injuries sustained in dreams
By Sandeep Joshi - Oct 15, 2011
Science is always full of surprises. Each theory is, in fact, a convenient framework to understand some observations and it works until we are surprised by new facts. One reason for these new observations is that our field of observation itself expands. Secondly, the scientific community and scientific mind is itself opening up to incorporate new ways of looking at the same phenomenon. In addition, the change in the model of physics whose footsteps medical science followed is inviting. Finally having searched the material box of the body we are still to find final answers to life’s riddle. All this is coming more and more to the front in the human quest. The following article is one such example which opens new doors of perception within us.
Āyurvedic interpretation of svapna (dream)
By Asit K. Panja - Jan 15, 2012
The world of sleep and dreams has always fascinated the human mind. Apart from the fact that we spend nearly a third of our life in a state which we hardly know or have control upon, our sleep and dreams are doorways to mysterious worlds buried in realms that lie behind our waking state. The Upanishads speak of the fourfold Reality of which dream and sleep state are like two passages between and our waking self and the last doorway to the Beyond. It requires a deep occult and yogic knowledge to understand the deeper and subtler issues that these symbol worlds try to express. Meanwhile, we have a second-hand substitute for this now lost knowledge in a scientific understanding based on our material view of life and existence. In this regard, it is interesting to note what the ancient system of Āyurveda speaks upon the subject.