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A Brahman ascetic, during the period of his discipleship, kept a faithful diary in which he recorded several of his dreams. Sarkar undertakes the interpretation of these dreams without the dreamer's assistance, by means of symbol translation. The main content of the dreams is the dreamer's struggle against his sexual desire which he has to ward off because of his religious training. Whereas he obviously tries to free himself from temptations, that which has been warded off returns against his will and can be recognized in his dreams in allusions to Oedipus desires as well as in signs of passive homosexual longings. Even his thoughts about his admired master show obvious evidences of homosexuality.
Sarkar dares to draw even further conclusions which are not always convincing. He assumes that the sight of his menstruating mother might have been the first cause of the development of the dreamer's antisexual attitudes. Latent dream thoughts from various layers are not always clearly distinguished from one another in the author's comments, and are mixed up with the repressed wishes which make use of these thoughts to find a distorted expression.