I think that a lived a good few lives in India. Before my first visit to India I saw a dream, a very clear and vivid one. I saw in detail a very specific carving on a stone wall that involved animals. I did remember this dream for a while and then forgot about it.
When i travelled in India for a first time (in this life), a fellow traveller suggested to visit a small and relatively little known town in South -East India, for it has some nice temples and not too many tourists.
Soon I strolled at the central square of the town. I was walking along the facade of one of the temples when a carving at the corner caught my attention. I had feeling I had seen it before. I scratched my head and started to think hard. I had never seen any photographes of this town before. I even
did not know this town existed before i went to India.
When i was staring at this carving i suddenly recalled my dream. I had seen this carving in my dream. The carving and this corner of the temple wall had few very specific details and i had seen all of them in my dream.The carving itself was in quite a rare style, it is not very typical or wide-spread motiv. So I am 100% sure this was the carving i saw in my dream. One interesting detail, though: in the dream the picture was horisontally flipped, so that what in reality was the left side was right side in the dream and vice versa.
I do not want to reveal the real name of the town because it has a huge
personal meaning to me. But this town and the temple both exist and I could go there tomorrow and point my finger at the temple wall that appeared to me in the dream.
In this life, before i actually went to India, i did not think much about it. i went there, because the opportunity was available and I was just curious to see an exotic place so different from my home (I am a white European woman).
But once I went there, the connection with this place started to surface. First of all, when I went to South India, I sort of felt that I have landed in a right context. The spritual culture and people's way of thinking were very easily understandable for me. As addition to that I must say that most of my life in my home country in Europa I have felt out of place. I have felt that my natural way of thinking and feeling clashes all the time with the collective subconsciousness of this part of the world. In South India however everything suddenly fell into it's place.This does not mean the people there immediately took me as their own. I got enough hassle because of the pakage I had, the white woman's body. But I felt some sort of belongig myself. I understood very quickly how people think and feel there and soon I was swimming like fish in water.
But there was another feeling as well. I felt that people who live in India today are not the same race anymore where i belonged once. I felt that people who I knew and where I belonged - my race - has left long time ago and the people who live there today are strangers to me. But I was still able to relate to them because this previous race had left their influence that was living through contemporary people.
i feel that if I lived in India, it must have been not later then 1000 AD. But i have feeling that I lived at least a life or two before BC, between 2000-1000 BC. The location must have been South-East India. I feel I had something to do with Orissa as well (North-East India) but I doubt I lived there, perhaps visited or had a guru of Orissa origin. In at least of couple of lives in India I feel I was a devotee of a spiritual movement, most likely Bhakti yoga.
When i travelled in India for a first time (in this life), a fellow traveller suggested to visit a small and relatively little known town in South -East India, for it has some nice temples and not too many tourists.
Soon I strolled at the central square of the town. I was walking along the facade of one of the temples when a carving at the corner caught my attention. I had feeling I had seen it before. I scratched my head and started to think hard. I had never seen any photographes of this town before. I even
did not know this town existed before i went to India.
When i was staring at this carving i suddenly recalled my dream. I had seen this carving in my dream. The carving and this corner of the temple wall had few very specific details and i had seen all of them in my dream.The carving itself was in quite a rare style, it is not very typical or wide-spread motiv. So I am 100% sure this was the carving i saw in my dream. One interesting detail, though: in the dream the picture was horisontally flipped, so that what in reality was the left side was right side in the dream and vice versa.
I do not want to reveal the real name of the town because it has a huge
personal meaning to me. But this town and the temple both exist and I could go there tomorrow and point my finger at the temple wall that appeared to me in the dream.
In this life, before i actually went to India, i did not think much about it. i went there, because the opportunity was available and I was just curious to see an exotic place so different from my home (I am a white European woman).
But once I went there, the connection with this place started to surface. First of all, when I went to South India, I sort of felt that I have landed in a right context. The spritual culture and people's way of thinking were very easily understandable for me. As addition to that I must say that most of my life in my home country in Europa I have felt out of place. I have felt that my natural way of thinking and feeling clashes all the time with the collective subconsciousness of this part of the world. In South India however everything suddenly fell into it's place.This does not mean the people there immediately took me as their own. I got enough hassle because of the pakage I had, the white woman's body. But I felt some sort of belongig myself. I understood very quickly how people think and feel there and soon I was swimming like fish in water.
But there was another feeling as well. I felt that people who live in India today are not the same race anymore where i belonged once. I felt that people who I knew and where I belonged - my race - has left long time ago and the people who live there today are strangers to me. But I was still able to relate to them because this previous race had left their influence that was living through contemporary people.
i feel that if I lived in India, it must have been not later then 1000 AD. But i have feeling that I lived at least a life or two before BC, between 2000-1000 BC. The location must have been South-East India. I feel I had something to do with Orissa as well (North-East India) but I doubt I lived there, perhaps visited or had a guru of Orissa origin. In at least of couple of lives in India I feel I was a devotee of a spiritual movement, most likely Bhakti yoga.
I really enjoyed reading about your experiences regarding India. What a wonderful validation to receive with the carving! It's always so amazing when parts of the puzzle start to come together 
