What is dream - A Tamil Perspective

Dreams are NOT visualizations, imaginations or some aberrant and bizarre
cognitive processes.

What are they then?

Dreams are FABRICATED as for the dreamer and to communicate something
important to him. And since most of the dreams are prophetic, telling in
advance about something that is going to happen to the individual ( this
aspect was denied by Freud but world history of dreams shows that most of
the dreams are prophetic in some ways), the primordial Power that fabricates
these dreams must be BEING, He who stands above Time and as the One who
knows all.

With this we can see that in lucid dreams where the icons are presented, the
same kind of processes are at work. BEING fabricates the lucid dreams and hence
transductive perceptions and because of which the person (we call them yogis
but the Westerners call them psychics!) can understand them something deep
and profound.. This is the essence of Icon Thinking such as Punitavati,
Poykaiyaar and so forth that we are studying now.

It is here we can locate the devas or muurtties as different ways BEING
presents Himself or shape shifts in order to fabricate the dream-drama and
thereby communicate something, the understanding of which would constitute
metaphysical illuminations. 

This is the meaning of avatar, I think. Now when you ask questions about these 
dream-fabrication processes then you would be involved with Mantrayana where
 the dreams and such elements of experienceare constituted by the aksaras, 
the mantra-syllables etc. The Ongkara Antati of Kaviyogi details these views and 
which comes in a long line of the Tamil Siddha tradition that we can trace back Tirumular
 himself. The akaram and ukaram are the dots and dashes of computer language and 
out of which so many marvellous graphics, movements sounds and so forth are fabricated.

Thus devas are shapes BEING projects to configure a dream-drama and the deep
ones becoming the contents of mythologies puraNas ,folk lores etc.

Now the souls of some of the dead may hover around as such spirits and they may
be the amarar of Poykaiyaar and many others. This may also be related to
ancestor worship etc.

Now I can understand devas as various presentational forms of BEING Himself
and hence beyond the categories of being alive and then dying, I am not
sure about these amarars, the spirits.


Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar