Thinking there might be some significance to his dream, I asked him what dreams were.
Prabhupada replied in a general way, saying that they are impressions stored within the mind, not just from this lifetime, but also from previous ones. The dream is illusory but the objects are real. Chuckling, he pointed to the plastic bottle of mustard oil I was using. "Here is a bottle of oil, and here is the bed. Both are real, but if I take the oil and put it under the pillow then it has no meaning. The pillow and oil are real, but I am crazy. That example is there in the Bhagavatam, of gold and a mountain. I have experience that there is gold, and there is mountain. I have no experience of a golden mountain, but in dream they combine."
October 3rd, 1976
Srila Prabhupada circumambulated the temple before going in for darsana this morning. As he traversed the parikrama path he asked us, "Do you know the meaning of this parikrama?" When we hesitated, with a broad smile he answered his own question. "If you walk around the temple then you don't have to travel throughout the universe. By going around the temple, then this going up and down in the universe is finished."
- From "A Transcendental Diary Vol 4" by HG Hari Sauri Prabhu
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