Saturday, September 23, 2023
The Cargo Plane !
The Cargo Plane !
I had a weird dream early this morning where I saw myself navigating a huge cargo aeroplane on my own, me as the sole pilot and occupant in the entire aircraft !
Being a cargo air ship it was full of all sorts of small and large cartons, bags and the likes. I saw myself flying the massive craft at very high altitudes and could visualise the ninety thousand meter mark ! (Too high for an aircraft all right, but it seems I was comfortable no doubt ! )
I thought I had mastered the art of flying the mammoth machine and suddenly realised that it was not the aircraft but my own fat body afloat !
Well, the dream over, I began thinking about the dream now fully awake. Indeed the Cargo aircraft was none other than me, collecting and carrying all sorts of Ego-Cargo overboard ! I had not dropped any of the heavy loads en-route , which I was supposed to do intermittently ! It seems I kept collecting large numbers of bags and cartons that were in fact empty, vacant ! And it meant I was carrying phoney, barren dreams all along ! I was ever eager to keep adding tinsel and trash within my persona, which was like a huge cargo aircraft accepting everything in its belly and carrying it too in high thin air !
I was shocked while realising true import of the dream. It has been the Ego-Cargo that has been a burden unto me so far, which I should have put aside long ago. However, it’s not late even now since that can lighten my steps and add velocity to my onward journey. Yes, I wish to travel deep down within myself and not keep floating in outer thin air.
Oh, that heavy burden of अष्टाहंकार !
Dr. P. S. Rahalkar
23 September 2023
