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 an expression is not conducive to development. In all cases the dream is just the period of adjustment and symbolism, a stage when consciousness relieved from the stress of life and its completely binding nature, releases itself to its freedom and sometimes runs riot also on the wake of great repression of content seeking expression in the waking life. Compensation, the play of imagination, symbolism and repressed contents seek their fulfillment in dream. That the theory that Isvara inflicts these several chariots and other sensations occur, could only mean that what a man deserves that he gets, what a man has by his activities stimulated seek their manifestation in the dream state. That a man suffers for what he does outside in his waking life is merely the theory of compensation in life. But it also means the index to temperament.
Yoga tries to control this dream life as well as the waking life. The causes of dream are imaginative liveliness and associative potencies. In making these associations entirely moral and consciously so, we make the oscillatory movements between waking-consciousness and dream-life merely a continuity and not violent as in the case of immoral and high- tension actions. The bondage to the unconscious elements can be got over when we make the biological collectivity merely non-existent to us, that never shows the least attention to its commandments and potencies. In triumphing over the instinctive life or reorganizing our life in the light of conscious spirituality all the several stages of our life lose their meaning and one becomes free from the wheel of evolutionary reactions. One becomes himself and does not travel into the realms of unconscious or dream, but expresses himself from the turia in the waking. The continuity is made by one leap.
Jung's Unconscious and the Turia:
Jung calls his unconscious the collective history of Mankind. "The unconscious is continually active creating from its material combinations that serve the needs of the future. It creates subliminal prospective combinations just as does the conscious, only they are markedly superior to the conscious combination both in refinement and extent. The unconscious therefore can also be an unequalled guide for man." But this would mean reducing the level intelligent fulfillment to the instinctive level, however, it































































































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