MAN
The man there symbolises that ego-tendency in the human nature which makes a
man, when some realisation comes,
to think how great a realisation is this and how great a sadhak am I and to call others to see and admire, perhaps
he thinks, like the man in the dream, "I have seen the Divine, indeed feel I am one with the Divine, I will
call everybody to see that". This is a tendency which has injured the sadhana of many and sometimes ruined
the sadhana altogether. In the thoughts you describe you came to see something in yourself which is there more
or less in all human beings, the desire to be thought well by others, to occupy a high place in their esteem or
their affection, to have honour, position, admiration. When anybody joins this feeling to the idea of sadhana,
then the disposition to do the sadhana for that and not purely and simply for the sake of the Divine comes in and
there must be disturbance or else an obstruction in the sadhana itself or if in spite of it spiritual experience
comes, then there is the danger of his misusing the experience to magnify his ego like the man in the dream. All
these dreams are coming to you to give you a vivid and concrete knowledge and experience of what these human defects
are so that you may find it easier to throw them out, to recognise them when they come in the waking state and
refuse them entrance. These things are not in yourself only but in all human nature; they are the things one has
to get rid of or else to guard against so that one's consciousness to the Divine may be complete, selfless, true
and pure.