Point of reference

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 7 years before Jul 28, 2018

MiBeloved 7 years ago

During dreams one gets a good opportunity to check on and to study one’s existential point of reference. I was on an astral level last night where a friend was existing. After some time as he was explaining his situation to me, he left and I was alone in that place. Then some children came there. I did not attend to them but they were requiring parental care.

After this a truck I was using on that level was stolen all of a sudden. I began looking for it as I felt accountable for the vehicle. I could not find it.

After a bit a person came along the road and I explained to him the stolen truck and asked him if he had seen it.

This is a very simple dream experience but it has profound implications about identity and how identity functions in the subtle dimensions.

These dimensions are the places one might have to live in after leaving the present body. In this world for instance, if one is in a developed country, a car is necessary. In fact in some areas if one does not have a car, one cannot move about since public transportation is either not available or it is too expensive for day to day use.

One might think that since one is interested in meditation or in yoga and since one has a philosophic outlook, one does not have to be concerned about the ways and means of moving about. But actually that is not a fact. It is simply a mental idea since in terms of daily existence, one has to move the physical body around and one has to have a way of doing that which is within one’s means.

But can one just give that up all of a sudden and just forget about it. A person who meditates might say, “Of course I can. If I passed on tomorrow, I would not care.” But is that a fact?

Ask any person in the developed country, if he or she would agree to be relocated suddenly to an undeveloped country like say Haiti or North Korea.

What is the actual point of reference of existence, not the philosophic or the conceptual one?

For the purposes of yoga, finding a practical point of reference for using socially in all situations, physical, astral or otherwise is a task.