How many of you remeber your past life?

Question

For those of you who believe in reincarnation.

1) How many of you remembered your past life? How many of you remembered what you were in your past life?

2) Do you remember a life where you were an animal instead of a human? How is the life as an animal?

3) Do you also remember the time after you die but before you were reborn? What is life like in this world?

Answer 1

When we reincarnate into a new form, the material mind is wiped clean of previous memories, so generally we are unable to remember previous lives, other then having a vague fragmented imprint of singular people, events and activities that impress as a dejavu. Lives in lower species are too horrific to retain memories of, these lives are awarded to souls in the mode of ignorance and are very bleak, especially the insect kingdom which is most hellish.

However there are some great souls, known as Mahatma's who possess a "jati smara" which means a broad memory, this is attained by spiritual advancement as the image imprints of worldly activities are material and therefore relative to time and place.

The spirit soul enters the subtle or astral platform whilst transmigrating from the old body to the new, the period of time the soul or self must remain in the astral world is dependent upon the degree of attachment and rectification required, for the soul to realise the transitory position of the material or illusory energy.

Reincarnation is a componant part of Vedic understanding, the only way to understand it, is to understand your real identity as an eternal spirit soul, rather then the material body. Vedic understanding must be learned in its entirity to gain knowledge of the science of reincarnation and release from the cycle of the repetition of birth and death.

There is no question that reincarnation is a reality, we, as individual spirit souls are reincarnating within these very bodies, the material body is composed of gross molecules and atomic particles,that are constantly changing, every seven years each cell is completely replaced, so the body we had seven years ago is different to the body we have now, this is reincarnation, even within this life.

At the end of this life when the gross material body is no longer operational, being simply a temporary biological machine, then the subtle material mind replays the events of one's life, those events in one's life that are most prominant propel the spirit soul, the real self, to the next destination, the basis for this to happen is by the activities that we perform and the desires that are most prominant, man proposes and God disposes.

If we live a spiritual life, with activities and desires to please the Supreme, then the original spiritual body is revived and we can return home, back to Godhead, however if the desires are more worldly then we will attain another material body perfectly suited to the mentality that we have developed whilst being in the human form of life, therefore the knowledge of the science of reincarnation is of paramount importance to understand.

The early Christian church also taught reincarnation, up untill the 6th century A.D., in 553 A D when the Roman empire started to collapse, the emperor Justinian at the 5th Ecumenical council at Constantinople removed and altered the teachings of Jesus to gain more social control over the uneducated masses, by establishing the "scare tactic" of a singular life, as anyone who opposed these types of alterations was considered a heretic, it is not difficult to understand how these gross misconceptions came to be accepted.

Fortunately we are now able to discuss real knowledge openly, without fear of an inquisition, aside from a shrinking group of "text book" fundamentalists, the science of reincarnation is being accepted unopposed by many intelligent people.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 2

Hbr 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Kind of blows reincarnation out of the water, doesn't it?

Reintarnation. To come back as a hillbilly.

Answer 3

No human spirit lives other lives,all who ever died are at rest waiting in the dream weaver asleep in the sand man,waiting upon the judgment day .It comes to pass when the son of God has prepared a holy place and ark of the covenant is in place in the holy of holiess,it time to summon the ALMIGHTY GOD and listen and now hearken onto the LORD.It is I THE HOLY ONE .

Answer 4

When I wrote the Bible all those years ago I new I should have put the phrase "Once upon a time, in a land far far away...." on the first page. Look at the mess I have made!

Answer 5

nice question, but i don't remember my past life and i know for remembering it a lot of training is needed.

Answer 6

Is it even possible to remember your past life? Aren't we supposed to have forgotten it?

Answer 7

I remeber mine I believe I was a butterfly.

Answer 8

I do. Yesterday I was at work and pretty much what I am today. 2 years ago I was at a different job and a different person.

Answer 9

Not sure but have strong memory? of being a fly and being trapped/confused by windows!

Answer 10

The bible says, ...." it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment.........