Is our God Dreaming?

Is our God Dreaming?

- Chintan Patel

Dream is the bridge that connects the tangible with intangible, unconsciously real world to the consciously unreal world. There has been ample of research on dream psychology by eminent psychologists, primary among them were geniuses like Freud and Jung. But, it still remains as mysterious as it has been for centuries. The most fascinating thing about dream is it looked real with all its attributes although we knew in our subconscious even while seeing it that this cannot be possible in reality!

This led me to think that what if the world we are living in is a dream by some extremely powerful and imaginative mind? Like dream, here also there are many things we could never understood, neither can we produce nor can destroy everything at our will, we have to follow the system provided to us on which we have very little or no control! We boast of developing some life changing technologies, but we could only done this by taking full help of natural resources (or dream infrastructure!). There are many things we could never change so, we had to accept that far greater power than us which governs this universe at its own will.  Our logical minds fought hard to deny it and still doing it but at last, as a ceasefire to that unmanageable war we named that entity as God and bow before it more in helplessness than in devotion. In our dream we cannot create our own world most of the time, it just 'comes' and we have no option but to accept it. We got the power of dreaming because we as the 'dream creation' are the part of the creator's subconscious mind and are made 'in his own image' as Bible put it. Also in the Hindu mythology we found a mention of Lord Brahma whose one day equals to many eons on earth. It can be considered as the precursor of Einstein's relativity theory which says when the person (or his mind!) travels with more velocity in space, the speed of time decreases relatively for him. Brahma as a creator of this world according to the Hindu mythology believed to have far more powerful mind than its creation. So, naturally his mind works more quickly than ours, as a result for him time travels too slowly for him than it travels on earth! Now imagine, unlike us the Generator of this wonderful dream consciously dreamed it, as an Operator maintains as well as manipulates his dream continuously and ultimately when he wants to end it, he adopts the role of Destroyer and dismantles his own creation to create entirely new dream. Being the sparks of that great eternal flame or being created in 'his' own image, we also inherit some of its qualities and with the time and appropriate training can rise to the level of creator itself, which is the essence of Hindu Vedantist philosophy.

Isn't it fascinating as well as depressing to think that we are nothing more than the 'dream creation' of some super-mind which could govern us at its free will? What become of our lovingly cherished dreams when we realized that we ourselves are nothing more than a trivial part of a dream? But, it isn't as gloomy as it seems when one enters the regime of devotion or Divine love, which is the essential element of every religion.  Because here one already accepts the omnipotent and omnipresent God who governs this world at his own will and loves him without asking anything in return. Gracefully accepting whatever the God provides him with. Having profound faith in the creator he always works with all his efforts but observes equanimity in results of his actions, because of the faith that whatever the God does to him would be ultimately for his own good. So, reaching at the sphere of love there is an inherent harmony between all religions, philosophies and science. Contradiction exists only at narrow perspectives and love is limitless by nature.