The study of the phenomena and King Pasendikosala’s dream is of three objectives. Namely:- 1. To study the dream in Theravāda Buddhist Scriptures. 2. To study King Pasendikosala’s dream appearing in Mahāsupinajātaka and 3. To study the phenomena in Thai societies and King Pasendikosala’s dream. This reach is a qualitative one. The results of the study of this research are as follows:-
1. The dream affects the human beings’minds. Thus the dream has been in the peoples’minds for 1,000 years. The present academics, thus, have a new instrument to test the dream, but they cannot find out the complete conclusion about the dream. In the western countries, the people talk about the dream that it is the dreamer’s sub-consciousness. In fact, the dreamer cannot respond to the dream, so the dream is collected in the sub-consciousness and will appear at the moment of sleeping and repay the part of the mind in the dreamer’s daily life to cause the mental balance to arise. In the Buddhist views, the dream arises from the relapse of the element, the received temperament, the deities’ sign and the past sign. Thus, the dream arises to the 4 ordinary people and the 3 types of the lower noble peoples, because they are still of the wrong concepts and defilements.
2. King Pasendikosala’s dream appears in the Mahāsupinajātaka Commentary as follows:- King Pasendikosala saw the head cow, the trees, the mother of the cows, the male cow, the horse, the gold tray, the dog called “Cingcork”, the water pot, the Pokkharani Pond, the uncooked rice, the Candra Tree, the water pot under the water, the stone on the water, the frog eating the cobra, the golden phoenix around the crow. He also dreamed of the yellow tiger being afraid of the goat. All these dreams were explained by the Commentary Teachers that the results of King Pasendikosala’s dreams did not arise in his reign and at the Buddha’s time, but would arise at the age at which the administrator was not in the Dharma, the monks and the lay men, the officers including all the people did not pay attention to the Dharma and behaved wrongly not righteously according to the Dharma and the sītas.
3. The conformity of King Pasenadikosala’s deram with the phenomena appearing in Thai societies is of 4 sides, namely:- 1. the natural environment, 2. the politics the societies and the economics 3. the Buddhist assemblies and personal ethics. Such the conformity will help the people in societies not to fall in negligence (Pamāda_ just to prevent the disadvantages from arising or in taking a long time to arise. |