Past Lives
I have a friend that doesn't believe in past lives, because everyone who told her of theirs, professed to be a Princess or a Warrior or someone else famous.
She wanted to know why they didn't tell her of their life mucking stables, or being a slave from 5 and helping to build a pyramid till they died of malnutrition at 17. And it's an interesting point.
Just as today, those with power and prestigue are few. What are the odds of ever having a terrific past life to tell your friends now.
Well firstly I asked her how they got their information. Some came from dreams, (which runs the risk of imagination or self influence) Others found out about their past lives from spiritual friends. Again, ego and popularity can direct a person's words. To tell someone they were a princess sounds better than a slave. And thirdly, Maybe it is what the person needed to hear to advance them from their current place of spiritual evolution. Their spiritual growth may have needed a kick, and belief in a greater existence the fuel.
My friend doesn't rule the reincarnation philosophy out, but fails to see how it should influence her every day. I have realised that belief in Past Lives is fully up to the individual. Just as we all have a different description of God and what our belief in God means to us, Reincarnation falls in a similar pot.
I found a fun website which tells you who you were in a previous life - just by telling them your date of birth. (There is no sign-up process - it's free and easy) It is a sub-page of The Big View.
Who were you in your last life?
Exploring Past Lives should be fun. Have a laugh with this program :)
Click this banner for a Past Life Regression Guided Meditation
Great Links to Explore...
Grounding Meditation
Higher Self Alignment
Meditation Download
From Reincarnation - The Vedanta Philosophy.
Here it may be asked, if we existed before our birth why do we not remember?
This is one of the strongest objections often raised against the belief in pre-existence.
Some people deny the existence of the soul in the past simply because they cannot remember the events of their past. Others, who hold memory as the standard of existence say, "If our memory of the present ceases to exist at the time of death, with it we shall also cease to be; we cannot be immortal." They hold that memory is the standard of life, and if we do not remember then we are not the same beings.
Vedanta answers these questions by saying that it is possible to remember our previous existences. Memory is nothing but the awakening and rising of latent impressions above the threshold of consciousness.
A Raja Yogi, through powerful concentration upon these dormant impressions of the subconscious mind, can remember all the events of his past lives.
It is said that the Buddha remembered five hundred of his previous births.
She wanted to know why they didn't tell her of their life mucking stables, or being a slave from 5 and helping to build a pyramid till they died of malnutrition at 17. And it's an interesting point.
Just as today, those with power and prestigue are few. What are the odds of ever having a terrific past life to tell your friends now.
Well firstly I asked her how they got their information. Some came from dreams, (which runs the risk of imagination or self influence) Others found out about their past lives from spiritual friends. Again, ego and popularity can direct a person's words. To tell someone they were a princess sounds better than a slave. And thirdly, Maybe it is what the person needed to hear to advance them from their current place of spiritual evolution. Their spiritual growth may have needed a kick, and belief in a greater existence the fuel.
My friend doesn't rule the reincarnation philosophy out, but fails to see how it should influence her every day. I have realised that belief in Past Lives is fully up to the individual. Just as we all have a different description of God and what our belief in God means to us, Reincarnation falls in a similar pot.
I found a fun website which tells you who you were in a previous life - just by telling them your date of birth. (There is no sign-up process - it's free and easy) It is a sub-page of The Big View.
Who were you in your last life?
Exploring Past Lives should be fun. Have a laugh with this program :)
Click this banner for a Past Life Regression Guided Meditation
Great Links to Explore...
Grounding Meditation
Higher Self Alignment
Meditation Download
From Reincarnation - The Vedanta Philosophy.
Here it may be asked, if we existed before our birth why do we not remember?
This is one of the strongest objections often raised against the belief in pre-existence.
Some people deny the existence of the soul in the past simply because they cannot remember the events of their past. Others, who hold memory as the standard of existence say, "If our memory of the present ceases to exist at the time of death, with it we shall also cease to be; we cannot be immortal." They hold that memory is the standard of life, and if we do not remember then we are not the same beings.
Vedanta answers these questions by saying that it is possible to remember our previous existences. Memory is nothing but the awakening and rising of latent impressions above the threshold of consciousness.
A Raja Yogi, through powerful concentration upon these dormant impressions of the subconscious mind, can remember all the events of his past lives.
It is said that the Buddha remembered five hundred of his previous births.