82 - Subsiding of Evil Dreams 

Nanda said- О virtuous one, О lord, I have heard everything, now you tell me about the evil dreams. "On hearing his words, the lord said, you listen.".

Sri Krishna said- The one who laughs heartily in his dream, enjoys songs and dances according to his liking; besides he surely falls into danger. 

The one whose teeth are broken or fallen, meets with the loss of wealth besides suffering bodily disease. 

The one who applies oil on the body or is seated on a donkey, camel or a he-buffalo, moving towards the south, is sure to meet with his death. 

The one who gives away in dream a japa Pushpa (Shoe flower)1 an Ashoka2 flower or karavira-pushpa3 besides oil and salt, is sure to face misfortune. The one who meets in a dream a black unrobed Shudra widow with a severed nose or comes across a small shell or the fruit of a tala tree, he meets with grief. 

1. Hibiscus Rosesinansis 

2. Jonesia Ashoka. 

3. Nerium Oleander

The one who witnesses in a dream in a Brahmana and his wife in anger he surely meets misfortune and his wealth departs from his home, by looking in a dream at the forest flowers, red flowers, a palasa flower, cotton and white garments, one meets with grief.

The one who witnesses in his dream a lady clad in black garments who is smiling or a widow with black complexion, one surely meets with death. If the gods dance in the dream of anyone, laugh or pat the thighs or are shown running, he surely meets with his end. If someone vomits, eases, drops refuse or witnesses a physician, silver and gold, he surely meets with a calamity within ten days. If a person witnesses in a dream a black cloth, black colour and a woman with black colours and embraces her, he surely meets with his death. The one who meets with a dead calf, deer or a human with a shaven head or bones, he surely meets with some misfortune. The one who rides on a chariot driven by a donkey or a camel and after being seated in the chariot, he wakes up, he surely meets with his death.

The one who finds himself soaked in ghee, milk, honey, butter milk or guda, he surely has to feel pain. The one who witnesses a woman in a dream clad in red costumes, wearing garlands of red flowers and with other means of decoration, he is surely over-powered with diseases.

One meets with death in case he witnesses in his dream fallen nails, hair, coal, a heap of ashes and a burning fire. By witnessing the cremation ground, dry-wood, grass, iron, teakwood trees, a black horse in a dream he surely achieves grief. 

By looking at sandal, a bone of forehead, a terrific garland of red flowers, black gram, green gram, small grained pulse, he develops a terrific boil in his body. In case someone witnesses in his dream, an army, a chameleon, a crow, a bear, a monkey, a nilagaya and puss, he surely develops ailment in his body.

If someone witnesses a broken vase, a wound, leprosy, a red garment, matted locks of hair, a pig, a he-buffalo, a donkey, thick darkness, a terrific dead body, male and female organs, he surely meets with misfortune. If anyone meets with a denounced mleccha holding a noose and a weapon in his hand beside the terrific messengers of Yama, holding a noose, one surely meets with death. One has to face grief in case one witnesses in a dream a Brahmana and his wife, a child, a son or a daughter crying and lamenting in anger. 

By looking in a dream at a black flower, a garland with black flowers, crops, warriors with a coat of arms and a deformed mleccha woman, one surely meets with death. In the dream, if one consumes fish his brother surely meets with his end. 

 By witnessing a musical instrument, a dance, a song and music besides red costumes, one surely has to face grief. If one comes across in a dream an injured person, a body without the head or the one with dishevelled hair, dancing rapidly and a deformed person, he surely meets with his death.

If one witnesses a mleccha of black colour, a black dead body and a mleccha-woman embracing a person, he surely meets with his end. The one whose teeth are broken or hair is fallen, he surely meets with losses besides pain in the body. 

The person who comes across in a dream, the creatures with horns or protruding teeth or children and the grown-up people become hostile to him, he meets with danger in the royal court. If someone witnesses a falling tree, a rain of stones, straw, a beggar, a red fire flame and a rain of ashes, he meets with grief. 

If one witnesses falling houses or a mountain, terrific comets or the broken branches of the trees, he meets with grief. The one who falls in a dream from a chariot, from a horse, from a mountain, from a tree, from a cow, from an elephant or from the sky on the earth, he surely meets with misfortune. 

The one who falls from heights into ashes, into pits filled with fire-flames, into pits with salt or lime, he surely meets with his death. The one from whose head some wicked person forcibly snatches away the chatra, his father, teacher or the king he surely meets with his end; the one from whose house the terrified cows with calves run away, the fortunes from such a sinful person surely disappear. The one who is bound in a dream with the messengers of Yama or a mleccha with the noose and is driven away, he surely meets with his death. In case an astrologer, a Brahmana or his wife or a teacher pronounces a curse getting-enraged, he surely meets with misfortune. In case an enemy, crows, cocks, deer, pounce upon someone in a dream, he surely meets with his end. 

In a dream, in case a he-buffalo, a bear, a camel, a pig or a donkey runs away in anger, he surely meets with ailment; by soaking the red sandal-wood in ghee, reciting the Gayatri mantra in case one makes a thousand offerings, the effect of a bad dream is wiped out. In case one recites the name of Madhusudana in devotion a thousand times, such a person is relieved of all the sins and his bad dreams are turned into good dreams. In case an intelligent person recites the name of Acyuta, Keshava, Vishnu, Hari, Satyaka, Janardana, Hamsa and Narayana with utmost devotion, one is relieved of the sin and his bad dreams turn into good dreams. By reciting the name of Vishnu, Narayana, Krishna, Madhava, Madhusudana, Hari, Narahari, Rama, Govinda, Dadhivamana, the ten names which bestow welfare a hundred times, such a person is relieved of all ailments. The one who recites the name of god a lakh of times, he is surely relieved of all the bondage's and by reciting the name ten lakhs of times, he is relieved of all the bondages. Consuming havishya food and reciting the name purifies a pauper who becomes rich and by reciting the name a hundred lakhs of times, one is relieved of the cycle of birth and death. The one who recites the mantra reciting the name of Durga, Ganapati, Karttikeya, Surya, Ganga, Dharma, Tulasi, Radha, Lakshmi and Sarasvati standing in the water he gets his desires fulfilled and all his evil dreams turn into good dreams. 

the one who recites this mantra of seventeen letters, it serves him like a kalpavruksha. 

By reciting this mantra ten times after purifying oneself, the evil dreams are turned into good dreams. By reciting this mantra, a hundred lakhs of times, one achieves success in this mantra and by achieving this success, he obtains all the siddhis. 

After facing death in a dream, one should recite this mantra a lakh of times and by doing so one achieves one's age up to a hundred years. An intelligent person should reveal his dream facing the east or the north but those belonging to the Kashyapa-gotra, the pauper, the degraded people, the denouncer of Brahmanas and the gods, the foolish and ignorant should not be told about the dream.

One should speak out the dream before a pipala tree, an astrologer, a Brahmana, the manes, seats of the gods, Arya and Vaishnava people besides friends. Thus, I have narrated to you the story which relieves one of all the sins, is graceful, increases glory and age. What else do you want to listen to from me?