Regarding past lives and rebirth

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  Namaste sadhakas,

 

   I have posted this reply on a thread about past lives in the

orkut community advaita vedanta and I think it could be beneficial

if I copied it here. It is a short summary of my experience with

recalling past births and my Guru´s and my opinions about rebirth.

 

29/04/2006 21:14

I remembered past lives clearly through hypnotheraphy. It was

literally like remembering where I had put something which I had

forgotten, you know, when the memory comes back "oh I put that stuff

there", it rings the bell, you know it is true.

I saw things which I really disliked, but had to be seen, such as

the death of my ex-wife and my suicide shortly afterwards in my last

life in England. Remembered also an amazing life as a Hun barbarian,

very confident tribe-leader, very strong confident man... did a lot

of mistakes like raping women pillaging cities etc until was hanged

and died... and many other lives including a less turbulent one in

northern India as a devotee.

Nevertheless my Guru tells me: "this is valid in RELATIVE level".

Past lives, such as present life, have no ABSOLUTE reality. The

Absolute is something that we must find out within ourselves so to

speak. Clinging to a notion of immortality of soul can be

detrimental, since if one is always reborn, why do anything? Just

lay back and enjoy life. But this is detrimental, causes misfortune

in future lives so it´s important not to cling to immortality.

Furthermore the personalities of my past lives had some resemblance

with the current one but were different because conditioned by

different means, parents, education etc. in many ways. So a fresh

start, a new life, is a most precious jewel so the focus must be on

the present life and not in past lives. But of course past lives are

real in the relative sense, like the world is real and I am real.

As to the increase in population there is no contradiction. Animals

have been eliminated all over the globe in the past century. Many of

them are now having opportunity of life as human. Other possibility

is that a jiva from another planet is born on Earth for first time,

I believe this is also happening.

 

     best regards,

     frederico

 

 

 

 

 

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