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ADH 1.] VEDĀNTA-KAUSTUBHA 511
CORRECT CONCLUSION (continued)
SŪTRA 4
“AND BECAUSE (A DREAM IS) INDICATIVE (OF FUTURE GOOD OR
EVIL), IN ACCORDANCE WITH SCRIPTURAL TEXT AND THOSE WHO
ARE VERSED IN THAT DECLARE (IT) ”
Vedānta-pārijāta-saurabha
From the scriptural texts, viz. : “When during works undertaken
for a wish, a man sees a woman in his dreams, let him there conceive
of success in that dream-vision” (Chānd. 5.2.9¹) “Now, when
a man sees a black person with black teeth in his dreams, he (i.e. the
black person) kills him (i.e. the dreamer)” (Ait. Ār. 3.2.4 ²), it is
known that a dream is “indicative” of future good or evil. “Those
who are versed” in the results of dreams also “declare” the same
thing. Now, we do not always dream dreams that indicate the
approach of what is desired ; again, we often dream dreams that
predict undesirable results. Hence none but the Supreme Soul is the
maker of the dream-chariots and the rest.
Vedānta-kaustubha
That the dream-chariots and the rest are created by the Lord
is proved further by the following facts : dreams are “indicative”
of good and ill, “in accordance with scriptural texts” like “When
during works undertaken for a wish, a man sees a woman in his dreams,
let him there conceive of success in that dream-vision” (Chānd.
5.2.9), “Now, when a man sees a black person with black teeth in
his dreams, he (i.e. the black person) kills him (i.e. the dreamer)”
(Ait. Ār. 3.2.4). Hence, they must be due to another. “Those
who are versed” with the science of dreams too “declare” that a
dream is indicative of good or evil thus : “Mounting on cows,
buffalos and elephants, mounting on palaces, hill-tops and trees,
besmearing one’s self with feces, weeping, death and coming to an
unapproachable place in a dream are lucky. There is death, un-
doubtedly, for him whom in his dream a woman, dressed in black
and smeared with black garlands, embraces” and so on. If the

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¹ Ś, R, Bh, ŚK, B ² Pp. 136-7 Ś, R, ŚK, B.