Guest guest Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 Namaste Nairji, Since I get the mails in Digest form, I snipped all others and kept yours only in reply. You raised an interesting point in "Remembering the future", which is probably not as preposterous as it sounds. Many of our Puranas talk of events which are scheduled to take place in future. And "Guru Charitra" written in Marathi a few hundred years ago and translated into Sanskrit and other Indian Languages (and if I remember correctly into English too), has one chapter devoted to the story of a King, who not only remembers his past life (he was a dog!), but also knows his next 12 lives! It thus seems that our concept of time is actually a thin section of a circular continuum and memory is the link with past and prediction or rather hope is the link with future. As you have rightly pointed out, it is better to write about future lives as "Fiction" to escape the 'kind' attention of psychiatrists! S.V.Swamy At 13:33 11/01/03 -0000, Shri Madathil Nair wrote: > Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:07:36 -0000 > "Madathil Rajendran Nair <madathilnair" <madathilnair >Re: Past Lives and Liberation > >Namaste Kathirasan-Ji. > >Sorry for being late. Thanks for the wonderful site on past lives. >I have always been interested in the paranormal. Still, the fact is >that, from the rationalistic point of view, many experts have put >forward different explanations for so-called memories of past lives. > >In this regard, I would like to raise the following question: > >All these reported cases are of past lives. Supposing, someone >recalls a future life, will anyone buy that? No. Because the claim >cannot be verified. He will be mercilessly pushed on to a >psychiatrist. I remember a case in Bombay where the 'patient' knew >details of a future life! You know what happened to him? He was >immediately called a schizophrenic and forcibly taken to a clinic to >receive electric shocks in addition to a number of tranquilizers that >were then available in the psychiatrist's armoury! > >No one has attempted to record cases where the future is 'remembered' >because that is against our sense of 'commonsense'. We take the >sequential or serial nature of consciousness as rigid and >unchangeable. Perhaps, we have a good case in Jules Verne whose >science fiction has proved him right time and again. Thank God, he >chose to writing fiction. Otherwise, he couldn't have escaped the >psychiatrist's kind attention. There may be other cases. Perhaps, >knowledgeable members among us can shed light on them. > >Recently, someone on our list wondered how many more births he may >have to take before mukti is attained (I can't locate that post right >away.). It is a tragedy that, as advaitins, we have become prisoners >to this concept called liberation. Is such lamentation justified in >view of the following advaitic insights? Message snipped... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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