Question: Can a spiritual dream be as beneficial as meditation?

Sri Chinmoy: There is a kind of dream which amounts to vision. If you have a dream that indicates an imminent new dawn, a new birth, this kind of dream is nothing short of a vision and it is as good as a high meditation. If you have that kind of vision, you can get God-realisation if it is God’s Will. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that if you have a vision of the highest order, if the Supreme wants to, He can give you partial realisation. Such a dream is not only as good as meditation, but far surpasses meditation. It is a vision of the highest order, a minor realisation.