Why it is important to remember previous lives?

Now it is not hard to find researches that confirms phenomenon of reincarnation. On the internet there are a lot of articles, stories how kids and adults, who remember previous lives, easily orientated in unknown cities, they know in which street are their “past” house. By memory they were able to tell moments that knew only family members about past family members or show where were standing furniture more a few decades back before their todays life. They were able to say about their death circumstances, that was confirmed documentally.

But no one theory even somebodies stories can not replace own experience. People who had experience of past lives are very responsible to their actions and to that form of life that they live.

There are certain methods that allows to remember past lives. In most situations it will not be possible to make it fast. But it’s important not to be lazy and put effort in it. Best for it will be yoga that allows through personal practice to dive deep into self inner world. It becomes possible when practitioner reaches certain success in concentration, about it talks “Brahmajala-sutta”:

“Because of effort, diligence, seriousness, the right attitude of mind, I get such concentration of mind that by focusing mind remember various places where I was in past lives.

“There I was living with such names, in such family, in such society level, were eating that, felt happiness and sorrow, reached certain length in life. After that left existence, I born again here” – this is the way how I remember all circumstances and details of various places where I was in past lives”.

How to understand that you get real experience of past lives and it was not your fantasy? Most often you will know something very deeply personal and truthful that it’s impossible to falsify. It’s not fantasy move or dream. Information that you get it’s not possible to misunderstand with something other. It’s certain taste. The same how receptors of tongue allow us to tell which water is sweet from salty, the same in subtle world there are special instruments that scans surrounding and allow to separate illusion from reality.

But it will be possible to deep dive to yourself only by limiting the flow of information that comes from outside, it means only by being in ideal closed surrounding. If you will keep watching TV, browsing internet and work in office, mostly it will not be possible for you to dive deep to yourself.

Before experiencing real you, you need to go through all informational garbage, that you were accumulating many years: movies, books, music. Deep under this garbage there are memories of past lives.

You can think, what’s the meaning to know your previous lives when we need to live in this world now and learn lessons? From first approach, there are no. Especially for that person who practice yoga absolutely not long time. That certain energy which practitioner can meet in his future growth, can raise up from his inner world new qualities, not usual and not always positive, for example pride, anger, greed. He will look to world differently in which good and evil will change places. In this moment it’s important to have stable support, memories about yourself, memories about that path that soul goes for many lives. Only personal experience will help you to hold on in yoga and do not mix reality. Personal experience is a must, that without believing in somebody yogi can determine his actions and activity.

Material from Andrey Verba lectures.