20 Oct 2013
There are two phases of a dream. One is that the feelings, which are very strong impressions on mind either in this life or in the previous lives, appear as a dream. The other phase is that God gives some message through the dream. You may not be able to conclude if the second phase also appears as an example of the first phase. This means that sometimes your conclusion that Datta Swami is Satya Sai, arising out of your appreciation to the knowledge of Shri Datta Swami may also result as this dream. Therefore, you cannot conclude that whether Shri Satya Sai really appeared to give this message or your own impression appeared as this message. The probability of each chance is equally strong. Your dream cannot be valid to others, who did not get such dream. Even for you, your dream is half valid only due to the two equal possibilities of the two phases of the concept of the dream.
The best way to decide whether Shri Satya Sai is Shri Datta Swami or not, is to analyze the knowledge expressed by both these human beings. If these two are only human beings, the knowledge will be of the ordinary level only. A Scholarly human being can give the clarification to certain expected depth only. If these two human beings contain the same unimaginable God, the knowledge expressed by such human incarnations is excellent and extraordinary since the Veda says that the identification mark of God is extraordinary knowledge with unexpected depth and unassuming clarification (Prajnanam Brahma). There cannot be two unimaginable entities and hence, the unimaginable God existing in these two human incarnations must be one and the same. The basic truth of the knowledge must be one and the same and the clarifications may differ due to the difference in the questions and doubts. The equality of the two human incarnations lies in the unity of the internal unimaginable God, which does not lie in the difference between the two external media. If you take the human incarnation as the external medium only, there can be never unity between any two human incarnations. Therefore, the unity between two human incarnations means only the unity of the same internal God, the speaker and the unity of His speech, the divine knowledge expressed. Therefore, if you can arrive at the unity of the extraordinary state of the expressed knowledge, you can naturally conclude at the unity of the internal unimaginable God. Such unity only should be the meaning of the statement of Shri Satya Sai that He and Shri Datta Swami are one and the same. Hence, it is better to arrive at the conclusion of the unity based on the analysis of knowledge expressed by Them rather than the basis of this dream. I do not contradict your dream because it may be real in your case. But the same dream of some other person may not be real, which may be based on his impressions on the knowledge of Shri Datta Swami. Once you have taken such conclusion based on the knowledge, the proof is already obtained and there is no need of this proof from dream.