If we get dreams of our past profession even after having retired for over ten years is that good or bad?

Answer Podcast

Transcript

This is an AI-generated transcript and may contain some errors.
Thank you So if we get dreams of our past profession even after we have retired from it for almost 10 years for 10 years you have been retired is that good or bad? I would say that dreams are simply recollections but the more consequential thing will be what is the effect of that is it creating desires that I should be doing it again or is it creating some kind of regret oh why did I give it up I should have been doing that or is it just a passing recollection that is coming and going so basically the mind is often very unpredictable and why a particular thought may come in our mind even in our conscious state sometimes I am just sitting here and something happened 20 years ago and I get the thought in my mind so now often why a thought comes in the mind it’s very difficult to find that out we can sometimes find out sometimes we can’t find out if you consider the mind to be like a pond and suddenly a ripple happens in the pond we can look around did somebody throw a stone over here is that where the ripple may have happened but sometimes there might be some fermentation deep at the bottom of the pond and from there because of that bubbles are coming now where that fermentation is happening we don’t know so like that we can look around in our external stimulus external world and see if there is some stimulus which is causing that recollection but if that is not there then the mind may just in its own fermentation something may come up in the waking state, in the dreaming state generally the thoughts that come in the mind they grow to the extent we give attention to them if we don’t give much attention to the thought it will come it will go basically it is like you know say somebody comes in our house somebody knocks at the door of our house that person is a marketing agent or something like that now if you open the door and start talking with them they will stay but if you don’t talk with them they knock for some time and they go away so like same way when some thoughts come in our mind or some thoughts come in our dream if you are not dwelling on them if you feel that is not important then there is no need to dwell on it if you are not dwelling on it they will come they will go so there is no need to worry too much about it it is to some extent naturally if you have spent many years in a particular profession to get memories of that is not a problem at all, it is something which in the mind is coming out it is only when we get emotionally involved in it and then we start experiencing desires or emotions very strongly in relationship with it and then they distract our consciousness from Krishna that’s when it becomes a problem otherwise just passing memories coming and going basically in the 14th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says that we should become observers of our consciousness so it is just as if I am living in a particular city some visitor may come in the city and they may go away from the city I just observe, I don’t get involved with them so like that Krishna says our mind will go through different moods we observe the moods of the mind but we don’t identify with them and that way if you do that then there is not much disturbance thoughts come, thoughts go if the thought is important for us we invest our consciousness in it otherwise we don’t invest and it will go away