Visions of Champaklal

Visions of Champaklal

These visions and inner experiences recorded by Champaklal between 1978 and 1987 form the centerpiece of this book. Champaklal began seeing visions in 1929. This book presents six of those visions, including three extraordinary ones at the Matrimandir, which he visited a number of times while it was under construction. They are accompanied by introductory and background material related to Champaklal’s life and service to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, a narrative related to Auroville and the Matrimandir, extracts from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the symbolism in visions, and a few personal comments by Nirodbaran and other friends of Champaklal. The work is enhanced by a number of photographs, colour plates, and facsimiles of messages in the handwritings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

Champaklal first met Sri Aurobindo in April, 1921. Two years later he joined the Ashram and became the faithful personal attendant of, firstly, Sri Aurobindo and, later, The Mother. Both held him in very high regard. In a letter of 1920, Sri Aurobindo wrote, “I do not want thousands or lakhs of disciples. It would be enough if I get a hundred men free from their petty egoism and ready to work as the instruments of the Divine.” The Mother was later to identify Champaklal as one of that hundred.

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Author: Champaklal
Compiled & Edited: Roshan & Apurva
Print Length: 104
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Submitted by: Sergei
Book format: Pdf, ePub, mobi (Kindle)
Language: English

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Preface
A Letter
Introduction

DREAMS — Extracts from the Writings of The Mother

Dreams — Origin, Formation
Dreams — Types, Importance, Utility
Dreams — How to Remember, Interpret

VISIONS — Extracts from the Writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Visions — Opening, Signs, Development
Visions — Importance, Utility
Visions — Characteristics, Types
Visions — Experience, Transformation, Realisation
Visions — Symbols, Symbolism

DREAMS AND VISIONS OF CHAMPAKLAL — With Sri Aurobindo’s Interpretations

Strange Dreams
The Calm Sea
An Unpleasant Dream
Blue Lotus
Loss of the Key
On Champaklal A Fighter on the Vital Plane
Are Visions Helpful in Sadhana?
Key with the Light
An Attack on the Vital Plane
A Lotus with a Coconut
Fire of Aspiration
On Champaklal Champaklal as a Soldier
Sun of Truth
A Baby with a Pot
The Sun and the Flower
Passing through the Workshop
A Rope of Light
A Fight with the Force of Discontent
A Carriage Drawn by a Tiger
An Accident at the Pond
The Sun and the Darkness
The Faith and the Downward Pull

VISIONS OF CHAMPAKLAL

Champaklal’s dream about our School Children
Ascent to Peace, Joy and Ananda
Annihilation of Evil
Towards the Mountain with Golden Light
An Experience with the Mother’s Photograph
Wonderful Lion-shaped Figure
Tapogiri
Illumined Place
Extraordinary Yajna at Tapogiri
Lamp in Madhuvan
Mount Paradise
The Mother’s Grace
Vision at Lower Part of Matrimandir
Journey of an Aspiring Soul towards Higher Planes
Golden Figure Enveloping Auroville
Two Visions at Hyderabad, Darbar Hall Golden Waterfall
Arrows Turning into Beautiful Flowers
Vision of Auroville Foundation Ceremony
Mother in a Golden Body
Visions at Govind Dham
On the Way to Hemkund
The Mother and the “Aspiration” Flowers
A Vision at the Lake Estate
Gift of Brilliant Beautiful Asana
A Journey to the New World
Conquest of the Asura on Mahasamadhi Day
Recitation of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
“Gratitude”
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in Gigantic Bodies
Loving Mother and the Baby
Mysterious Worlds
Mysterious Numbers
A Dream — Transcending Time
A Sheet of Cloth with Snow-white Light
Experience of Sudarshan Chakra
An Unforgettable Wonderful Experience in Kottakal
Prasad to the Deserving Only
Tears of Gratitude
The Sage and the Old Book
Infinite Steps
Going Higher and Higher
Mysterious Heaps
A Vision at Nainital
The Assurance from the Mother
An Experience of Om
An Experience of Boundless Ananda
A Magnificent Mystic Darshan
A Message from the Mother
A Vision of the Famous French Artist
The Mother in the Golden Lotus
A Magnificent Heavenly Darshan in Matrimandir
Symbolic Vision in Waking State
Golden Virāt Purusha

INTERPRETATIONS OF CHAMPAKLAL’S VISIONS — Based on the Interpretations of the Symbols Given by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Interpretations of Champaklal’s Visions
Ascent to Peace, Joy and Ananda
Annihilation of Evil
Wonderful Lion-shaped Figure
Tapogiri Illumined Place
Extraordinary Yajna at Tapogiri
Lamp in Madhuvan
The Vision at Lower Part of Matrimandir
Journey of an Aspiring Soul towards Higher Planes
Golden Figure Enveloping Auroville
Two Visions at Hyderabad, Darbar Hall
Golden Waterfall
Arrows Turning into Beautiful Flowers
Vision of Auroville Foundation Ceremony
Mother in Golden Body
Vision at Govind Dham
On the Way to Hemkund
The Mother and the “Aspiration” Flowers
A Vision at the Lake Estate
Gift of Brilliant Beautiful Asana
A Journey to the New-World
Conquest of the Asura on Mahasamadhi Day
Recitation of Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
Loving Mother and the Baby
Mysterious Worlds
A Dream Transcending Time
A Sheet of Cloth with Snow-white Light
Experience of Sudarshan Chakra
An Unforgettable Wonderful Experience in Kottakal
The Assurance from the Mother
An Experience of Om
An Experience of Boundless Ananda
A Magnificent Mystic Darshan
A Message from the Mother
A Vision of the Famous French Artist, Claude Monet
The Mother in Golden Lotus
Symbolic Vision in Waking State
Golden Virāt Purusha

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Visions of Champaklal

PREFACE

We present in this book a collection of dreams and visions of Champaklal whose very name evokes the memories of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother to their devotees. The collection is prepared without any distortion from the original writings. The word “Vision” is also used at some places to convey its wider sense of superconscious experiences and revelations. They are usually symbolic, clear, precise and well coordinated. Our purpose in presenting the dreams and visions of Champaklal is to make available, to the present generation, one of the major aspects of his life given in the narrations of visions as actually “seen” by him from time to time. They are like a glorious song of cosmic forces at work both in man and in nature. Our purpose will be well served if this book can re-create, in the prepared reader, at least a semblance of the experiences of Champaklal.

Champaklal used to ask Sri Aurobindo the meanings of his dreams, hence their interpretations by Sri Aurobindo are available. They are presented here. We have made an attempt to suggest possible interpretations of later dreams and visions, based on the interpretations of the symbols given by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Some hardy souls may raise their eyebrows at this. We are aware that to give an interpretation would be like shooting an arrow at the Truth, which may, at the most, “hit a point, but not cover the whole target.” These interpretations are only a pointer, are not to be taken as rigid and absolute and they are not meant to limit the original value and beauty of the dreams and visions. It is our hope to use them as mirrors and try to provide a reflection of the beauty and depth of the experiences of Champaklal to the reader.

We believe that if an individual does not at least make an attempt towards the realisation of the higher consciousness, his life will be spent in vain. Our attempt is, therefore, to persuade the reader to take upon himself the task of his own re-building so that he may in turn feel the urge to be liberated and experience what Sri Aurobindo describes in his lines in Savitri:

“Near to earth’s wideness, intimate with heaven,
Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit
Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm
Overflew the ways of thought to unborn things.”

Would it not be a source of inspiration to know that a man exists amongst us, who could assert even today that he actually sees and is in constant union with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in their luminous, golden bodies?

We have also compiled extracts in general from the writings of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, on dreams and visions, which have been presented in individual chapters.

Most visions have been translated from Gujarati by Champaklal himself, some by the late Shri Pujalal and some by Sushilaben with the help of Champaklal and Kamalaben. Many of them have appeared in the English monthly Mother India.

We present this book with a deep sense of gratitude and reverence to Champaklal for his guidance, kind co-operation and patient hearing. We also offer our sincere thanks to an eminent scholar and an enlightened devotee Shri K.D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) for his able and unobtrusive guidance. We are most grateful to all those who have helped in the publication of this book. We would like to record our special thanks to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, for the cooperation extended by them.

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