How to remember your past lives

There are some questions that it’s very hard to explain.

Why one people born very poor, others – very rich?
Why one people born very healthy, others – very ill?
Why one people born with talents, others – without?
Why one people lives more than 100 years, other – only 1 month?
Why one people lives in one place whole life, others – always travels?
Why one people born with good character qualities, others – bad?
Why sometimes we meet person and it looks that we know him for very long time?
Why sometimes we meet person and it looks so comfortable to be with?
Why sometimes you can fluently speak another language just after a few lessons?
Why one people has fears and phobias, others – no?
Why one people listen one type of music, others – another?
Why one people prefers one food, others – another?
Why one people born beautiful, others – ugly?

Quotes about past lives

Paramahansa Yogananda: “Reincarnation teachers, that life continues even after so-called death. Body is temporary, but soul lives forever.”

Greek philosopher Plato: “I’m convinced that there is indeed suh a thing as repeated life.”
“The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life… Knowledge easily acquired is that which the ending self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.”

Writer Jack London: “I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing through incalculable myriads of millenniums… All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me… Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.”

Mahabharata, Bhagavadgita:
“He was never born, and will never die
He does not appear and does not disappear
He just always there
Unchanging, primary, existing
When body dies
He stays as it is.”

German Composer Gustav Mahler: “We all coming back. This confirmation gives meaning to life and there are no big difference whether we remember past lives in later lives. What is important, it is not individual and his comfort, but to seek perfection and purity that continues in every incarnation.

Mahatma Gandhi: “Every night when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I reborn.”

Sufi poet Rumi: “I died as a mineral and become a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When I was less by dying?

Musician George Harrison: “Friends are all souls that we’ve known in other lives We’re drawn to each other. That’s how I feel about friends. Even if I have only know them a day, it doesn’t matter.

What do we need to remember our past lives

To understand it, we need to know about karma and reincarnation. Karma means law of cause and effect. Whatever you do for others, you get the same back. Reincarnation means that after death body dies and soul reincarnate into new body.

Body is house, soul is resident of house (who lives).
Body is car, soul is driver.

Paramahansa Yogananda say that we return to earth many times until we do not realize our spiritual nature.

Most of eastern countries lives with understanding about reincarnation. Millions of people in India, Tibet, Nepal, China, Japan, Birma, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, philosophers like Plato, Socrates, Schopenhauer, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Leo Tolstoy and others.

Science research on reincarnation

There was two scientists who dedicated all their life to study past lives.

1) Raymond Moody – American Psychiatrist, Physician. For 30 years he were searching parents whom kids remember their previous lives. They were cheking them and found more than 1000 cases.

2) Yan Stevenson, Canadian Psychiatrist, Professor. Found more than 3000 cases of reincarnation in Sri Lanka with kids.

When we act, we create habits, skills, tendencies, desires, patterns in our subconscious mind. When body dies, those subconscious patterns stays in subconscious level and when you get new body, those patterns already are inside of us.

Swami Mukundananda says, that in the time of death, subtle and causal body separates from physical body, leave physical body and all imprints of the past remain in the subtle body. At the time of death, part of memory is erased, as well as at birth. And children still remember something but pressure of life pushes so strong that person does not remember. They remain in subconscious. That’s why somebody likes yellow color naturally, somebody mountains. It cannot be eplained in one lifetime.

Swami Rama say that if you have bad habits, they remain at the time of death.

There are idea that is very popular to live, consume and do not think about future: “You only live once (YOLO), Life fast die young, now or never, no regrets, life is too short and similar.

By living on those ideas you start to act without thinking about consequences, karma.

When you get your own experience and confirmation that you live more than 1 life, you become responsible for what you’re doing in life. In most cases you can practice yoga and meditation only because you have experience from your past lives.

Two practical methods how to remember past lives

1) Regression hypnosis – when guide leads you to different state of mind and helps to remember. This option is recommended only for people who can’t practice yoga. Also there are change that this person (guide) will make impact on what you will see and experience. It means that you will not be 100% sure that whatever you see is your experience.

2) Deep meditation. When you go deep inside you and you experience your past lives on your own. It is vipasana, silent course, retreat that comes from Buddha Shakyamuni life. Idea of this methods, that you learn to do meditation by concentrating on breathing. And then you get personal experience.

It can be personal Vipassana or retreat with group of people.

By remembering past lives it help you to remember who you are and find that way of life in which you move from life to life.