Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 1 Issue 6, (I December2016) | Page 13

Sometime after this the holy man grew old and then death overtook him. His wife, who
was highly devoted to him, prayed to me and asked for the same boon that you have
asked for: that her husband’s spirit should not leave her house. I granted her that boon.
Though that holy man was an ethereal being, on account of the power of his constant
wish during the previous life-span he became a mighty king and ruled over a great
empire which resembled heaven on earth. Arundhati had also given up her body and
attained reunion with her husband. It is eight days since this happened.
Lila, it is the same holy man who is now your husband, the king; and you are the
same Arundhati who was his wife. On account of ignorance and delusion it seems that
all this takes place in the infinite consciousness, though in reality nothing happens. I do
not utter falsehood, but am telling the truth. It sounds incredible but this kingdom
appears to be only in the hut of the holy man on account of his desire for a kingdom.
The memory of the past is hidden, and you two have risen again. Death is but waking
from a dream. Birth which arises from a wish is no more real than the wish, like waves
in a mirage! Even after the ‘creation’ of all this in the holy man’s house, it remained as
it was before. Indeed, in every atom there are worlds within worlds.
LILA asked:
O Goddess, you said that it was only eight days ago that holy man had died; and yet my
husband and I have lived for a long time. How can you reconcile this discrepancy?
SARASVATI said:
O Lila, just as space does not have a fixed span, time does not have a fixed span either.
Just as the world and its creation are mere appearances, a moment and an epoch
are also imaginary, not real. In the twinkling of an eye the jiva undergoes the illusion
of the death –experience, forgets what happened before that, and in the infinite
consciousness thinks ‘I am this’ etc. and ‘I am his son, I am so many years old’ etc.
Even as in a dream, death and relationship all in a very short time. And even as a lover
feels that a single night without his beloved is an epoch, the jiva thinks of experienced
and non-experienced objects in the twinkling of an eye. And immediately thereafter, he
imagines those things (the world) to be real. Even those things, which he had not
experienced nor seen, present themselves before him as in a dream.
This world and this creation is nothing but memory, dream: distance and measures of
time (like a moment and an age) are all hallucinations. This is one kind of knowledge –
memory. There is another which is not based on memory of past experiences. This is
the fortuitous meeting of atoms in consciousness which are then able to produce their
own effects.