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[SŪ. 3 2 4 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.