77 - The God Dreams

Nanda said- О lord, which one of the dreams bestows merit and by witnessing which dream one achieves moksha, which one of the dreams bestowed pleasure and which ones of them are considered to be good dreams. Sri Krishna said- Of all the Vedas, Samaveda is considered to be the best for performing all types of deeds. In the Manohar-punya-kanda of the Kanvashakha, the bad dreams and the good dreams which bestow merit have been described. О father, I am highlighting all of them, you kindly listen to me attentively. I am narrating to you the chapter on good dreams which bestows immense merit. By listening to the chapter on great dreams one earns the merit of taking a bath in Ganga. 

The dream is witnessed during the first Prahara of the night bestows the reward in a year; the dream witnessed in the second Prahara produces the result in eight months and the one witnessed in the third Prahara bestows the result in three months and the dream witnessed in the fourth Prahara of the night can produce the result in fifteen days. The dream which is witnessed during the dawn produces the result in ten days. And in case a dream is witnessed in the early morning it gives the result instantaneously. Whatever is seen is thought during the day and is reflected in the dream. О father, when a person who is infatuated with worry and disease, witnesses a dream it becomes of no consequence.

The one who is lying motionless and is suffering from the force of urine and refuse or is infatuated with fear, is naked or with dishevelled hair, the witnessing of a dream by such a person is of no consequence. In case a sleeping person after witnessing a dream or narrates it to someone in the night itself, he does not have to get a reward for it. 

If a person of Kashyapa gotra witnesses a dream, he surely invites misfortune. In case the dream is told to an unfortunate person, one has to face misfortune; by speaking the same to a degraded person one invites ailment; by speaking out the same to an enemy, one invites fear; by narrating it to a foolish person, one invites quarrel; by speaking to a damsel one is deprived of the riches and when one narrates it during the night, one has to face the danger of theft.

If one, after witnessing a dream, again goes to sleep he meets with grief and if the dream is retold to an intellectual, the desire is fulfilled. Therefore, О lord of Vraja, the intellectuals should not discuss about the dream with persons of Kashyapa gotra. 

О lord of Vraja, one gets food and cries (weeping), if one witnesses in the dream a cow, an elephant, a horse, palaces, climbing on the mountains. By receiving vina, one gets enough of paddy and land. If the limbs are out with the attack of weapons or one gets wounded or having been bitten by insects or touching the refuse and blood, one gets wealth. 

The one who enjoys the pleasure of the company of an unchaste woman, he achieves a good wife. By getting soaked in urine, drinking semen, entering a city or the hell, drinking of blood, water of the ocean or the nectar, one gets good news besides enormous riches. 

By witnessing in a dream an elephant, gold, bull, cow, lamp, cereal, fruit, flower, girl, umbrella, the glory is increase besides getting immense riches. One achieves immense riches by witnessing in a dream a pitcher full of water, a Brahmana, flower, fire, betel, temple, white paddy and actor and a whore. By witnessing in the dream, a cow, milk and ghee, one achieves merit besides riches. In case one witnesses in the dream rice with milk on the leaf of the lotus flowers, the curd, milk, ghee, honey, Svastika sweet he surely becomes a king in the near future. 

The one who consumes the meat of the birds and the human flesh in a dream he earns enough of riches, good news and his desire is fulfilled. If one who gets a chatra or a sandal, he achieves enough of cereals and by getting a spotless and sharp sword, he gets the appropriate reward. 

The one who swims over the water play-fully, such a person becomes a minister, if one witnesses a tree laiden with fruits, the person surely gets enough of riches; he who is bitten by snakes, earns enough of fortune. The one who witnesses in a dream, the sun or the moon he is relieved of all the ailments. 

The one who witnesses a mare, a hen and a female crane bird, he obtains a beautiful wife. The one who is bound in fetters in a dream he achieves enough of glory and a son. If anyone consumes rice with milk on a lotus leaf seated on the bank of a river, he surely becomes a king.

By witnessing a leech, a scorpion and a snake one achieves enough of riches, son, victory and glory. If one witnesses animals with long horns and big teeth or tusks like those of pigs and getting troubled by monkeys, one becomes a king and achieves enormous riches. 

The one who witnesses fish, meat, ornaments with Jewels, Shamkha, sandal-paste and diamond, one achieves enough of riches. If one witnesses wine, blood and gold, one gets food and treasures. By looking at the image of a god or goddess or Shivalinga, one achieves enough of riches. 

If one witnesses a creeper laden with flowers and fruits beside the mangoes and burning fire, one achieves enough of riches, intelligence, wealth. By witnessing the myrobalan fruit, mango fruits and lotus, one achieves enough of profits. If one witnesses god, a Brahmana, ancestors and a Brahmachari, whatever is seen in the dream becomes true. Clad in white garment, plastered with white sandal-paste, holding a white rosary if a damsel embraces a person, he enjoys the pleasures which always surround him. If a damsel clads in yellow garments, holding a yellow rosary and sandal-paste embraces a person, he meets with much welfare.

Except ashes, bones and cotton if anything else which is white is seen in a dream it is considered to be quite fortunate. Similarly except the cow, the elephant, the horse, a Brahmana and the god, all the black things witnessed in the dream are denounced; the one who meets a divine woman, wearing a smile on her face adorned with all the gem-studded ornament, belonging to the Brahmana caste or arrives in the house of anyone, he surely achieves great profits. A Brahmana, a god, a Brahmani the daughter of the god or a Brahmana couple when seen in a happy mood as in dream they bestow the reward on anyone who surely gets a son. О Nanda, the one who is bestowed with the blessing of a Brahmana in the dream and whatever he speaks, it comes out to be true and his riches and horses go on increasing.

In case a Brahmana getting immensely pleased visits the house of a person in a dream, in such a house Narayana, Shiva and Brahma enter, as a result of which there is an increase in his fortune, glory and lustre. 

In a dream if someone suddenly gets a cow then he gets land and a chaste wife. The one who is lifted up by an elephant with his trunk over its head, he surely becomes a king. This has been ordained in the Vedas.

О lord of Vraja, in a dream if a Brahmana embraces a person, he surely achieves riches besides having a bath in the holy place. In case a Brahmana in a dream offers some flowers to an auspicious person, be becomes victorious besides achieving enough of riches, animals and pleasures. 

By visiting the sacred places besides palaces, the gems and the house, in a dream, one gets enough of riches. The one who takes a bath in the holy places in a dream or if someone presents him with a pitcher filled with water, such a person surely obtains a son and enough of riches.

In case a person arrives in the house of a person carrying wine, he surely achieves enormous riches. In case a divine woman arrives in the house of someone and drops refuse, he surely achieves riches and his poverty disappears.

In case, in a dream, a Brahmana couple arrives in the house of someone in that case Shiva and Parvati or Lakshmi Narayana arrive in that house. In case a Brahmana couple offers some paddy or a bunch of flowers, he achieves all-round riches.

О lord of Vraja, in case a Brahmana offers a garland of gems to a person besides a garland of flowers or sandal-paste, he meets with all-round glory. By receiving gorocana, a flag, turmeric, sugar-cane and food, in the dream one receives success all round. 

In case a Brahmana couple places a chatra or some white paddy on the head of someone, he surely becomes a king. The one who wears a white garland of flowers in the dream and the body is plastered with sandal-paste and is then seated on the chariot or when he consumes curd or rice with milk, he surely becomes a king. 

In a dream, when a Brahmana or a Brahmani placing nectar or curd in a vase, offers to a person, such a person surely becomes a king. The maid of eight years adorned with all the ornaments when appears in the dream before someone, she becomes a poet or an intellectual. 

In case in the dream she offers a book to someone, he becomes a world-renowned poet and the best of intellectuals. In case in the dream, Sarasvati teaches a son like the mother, be becomes the son of Sarasvati and no one can compete with him in wisdom.

In case a Brahmana teaches someone in the dream with much effort or offer him a book lovingly, he also is turned as a great intellectual. In the dream, if someone meets with a book while walking on the way, he also becomes a great writer well known in the universe.

In case a Brahmana bestows a Mahamantra to a Brahmana, such a person achieves great wisdom, wealth, qualities and becomes an intellectual. In case a Brahmana presents another Brahmana with an image or of a mantra, he achieves success in the mantra 

In case someone in the dream goes before a Brahmana or a group of Brahmanas and receives their blessings, such a person surely becomes a great king or a great poet. Getting immensely pleased in a dream, if a Brahmana gives away land to someone, he surely becomes a lord on earth. 

In case a Brahmana getting someone mounted on the chariot, shows round various heavens, he becomes immensely rich and enjoys a long life. In case, in a dream, a Brahmana gives away his daughter to another Brahmana, such a person becomes immensely rich and a king. 

In the dream, if one witnesses a pool and an ocean, a river, rivulet, a white snake and a white mountain, he surely achieves wealth. The one who witnesses a dead body, gains long life, he feels painful while coming across a sick person and feels delighted when he comes across a healthy person 

In case, in the dream, if a divine damsel comes and speaks to a person, "You are my lord". And he wakes up at the same time then he surely becomes a king. In the dream in case, the goddess Kalika" appears and offers a rosary of crystal beads or the vajra of Indra or the bow, such a person surely achieves great glory. In case a Brahmana tells somebody, "You are my slave,” he becomes devoted to lord Hari and achieving my slave hood he is called a Vaishnava. In the dream a Brahmana is represented in the form of Vishnu and Shiva. The Brahmani represents Lakshmi and Parvati, the white complexioned woman represents the mother of the gods, Ganga or Sarasvati, the one who takes to the form of the cowherdess, surely stands for Radhika my beloved and the cowherds are the form of the cowherds of Goloka. This has been ordained by those well-versed in the dreams. О Nanda, I have thus narrated to you everything about dreams; what else do you want to listen to from me? What more should I speak.