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wishes which could not gain fulfillment in our life, either public or private, and as such are repressed by oneself, either out of fear of criticism or any other fear, find expression either directly or symbolically in dreams. They have explained all this indigenously, and in any case these are usually subjective and refer to oneself. But dreams also have a symbolic technique which is claimed to be universal, and therefore capable of being interpreted In fact even prognostications are made both in psycho-therapy and psychology. Certain drugs produce dreams which are about common to all those who take them.
But the Yogic Consciousness is not like dream consciousness, through in ordinary life it is just possible that since every abhyasi is also capable of having dreams, or rather, dreams being also states of consciousness, they are the operations of the highest consciousness already introduced or transmitted to him. They through out the inner psychic contents and, in doing so, do not create psychos but abolish them. Further they are, in one sense, the intimations of the higher consciousness at that level of the individual where his external organs are at rest only the inner mind actively receiving the higher consciousness. In other respects it may very much look like the other symbolic imagination or projection from within one's own depths.
The transmission of the highest consciousness is experienced by the abhyasi when he sits before his Guru who ignites his inner being or his central being connected with his heart. The heart-the physical heart-is important at the first stage because our closest thoughts are surely tinged with the affective factors, which have linked themselves with all thought. Man is a creature of emotional thought and instinctive thought, and the center of the physical existence is the heart. The transmission of the spiritual force by the Guru to the heart may be expected to bring about a lot of change. The usual anticipation of most abhyasis preparing to receive the first transmission is to expect some mighty electric charge to pass one and thus create an impression on oneself. Some abhyasis expect immediately some changes like the abolition of the mental modifications-or the passing of thoughts which prevent concentration on the Guru or his transmission. But, what is experienced actually is not any such radical or spectacular phenomenon, but a setting up of anew kind of vibration which makes one feel 'the quiet' amid