Potent Dream

Several years ago I had a very potent dream in which my brother was in an explosion and was either very seriously maimed or killed. I could feel my soul running frantically to Sri Chinmoy in the dream, to ask him to help my brother. Time passed and I forgot about the dream. One day a few months later, I was speaking with my parents who were discussing my brother's upcoming trip to Beirut with the American Ambassador. They were going to see how the Beirut Embassy had secured the premises after the Marine barracks were bombed earlier that year, with many deaths. Two days later it came across the newswire that a truck-bomb had driven up to the front of the American Embassy in Beirut and exploded, wounding the Ambassador and killing the Security Officer who was with him. Assuming it was my brother who had been killed, I called my parents again. They said that an hour and a half before the plane left for Beirut, my brother had been pulled from the flight and sent to Baghdad. It was two days before the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War. The Officer who replaced my brother had been killed. I feel that Guru had saved my brother's life by making him responsible for evacuating the European Ambassadors from Iraq through the sewer system of Baghdad!

Chayanika (New York)