Past Lives and Kundalini

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Dear Harsha,

 

Thank you very much

for your long and thoughtful reply.

 

On Fri, 14 May 1999 09:29:55 HarshaIMTM wrote:

>Hi Amanda. I will forward your post and my response. Perhaps others can also

>give you different insights. I remembered one of my past lives as a yogi when

>I was around 12 very clearly, sitting on the top of roof in the veranda in my

>grandfather's house in India. It came with such clarity and seeing what I had

>to do led me to formulate my first principle of teaching which came in a

>sequence of thoughts which repeated themselves in my mind with such force

>again and again that I can never forget them. They were, "The students should

>know that if one has to ever choose between a teacher and Truth, one should

>always choose the Truth and if one ever has to choose between me (Harsha) and

>the Truth, one should always choose the Truth."

 

An amazing amount of insight for someone that young.

 

I like your first principles.

>when I was in my early 20s I had a vivid dream/vision of Ramana Maharshi, in

>which I had a different face. Ramana Maharshi walked over to me and squinted

>his eyes and was looking at me and a stream of thoughts started to be

>conveyed from him. He was saying "Do I know you.....do I know you.........I

>don't know ..........I don't know if I know you....". Then he stepped forward

>and touched me on the head as if saying, "Now I know >you."

 

I can just picture him, suddenlt remembering you.

>I experienced Nirvikalpa Samadhi and Recognized clearly the

>nature of the Self. After that I lost interest in things like past lives,

>supernatural powers, etc., as my mind does not go in those directions. I feel

>content with what I know and what I don't know. My experience is that past

>lives can be known with meditations both without obvious manifestations of

>Kundalini and with special meditations involving the Kundalini shakti and

>different centers.

 

(nod, nod)

 

Those are my impressions too.

>I do not know if that is the best use of one's energy. If

>experiences of past lives come spontaneously, that is fine. If one seeks

>them, one cannot be sure if it is imagination. In the end, it is all

>imagination.

 

Everybody who are interested in knowing the past

talks about how to distinguish b/n imagination and

"real" memories. It's hard and perhaps irrelevant

to do.

 

I started out with past life memories, if it hadn't

been for that, there would have been no K.

 

Knowing the past certainly changed a lot of the views

on Self, in fact it was the inductive process to

at least partly realize the concept of the I AM.

Seeing yourself as every conceivable human being

does tend to break some perceptions of the ego

down.

 

After I stopped fearing having every single memory

come into my head at once, the memories stopped.

 

Time to concentrate on other things.

 

Thanks again for taking time to reply.

 

This is such a new world for me as I never did any

yoga or formalized meditation before.

 

All kinds of information is useful.

 

Best regards,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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