Previous Birth – Rebirth

It is a miracle of nature,

Or a celestial spectacle,

Make your minds and hearts alert,

This matter is spiritual.

• Manjul Kundeshwar

Previous Birth – Rebirth......!

Rebirth is an eternal truth. Parapsychology has directly proven this long-established truth of Sanatan Dharma (Hinduism) on the touchstone of experience: that a person is reborn. If you remember some things from your previous life after rebirth, then a link automatically forms between these two lives.

Where were you born in your previous life? What was your family like? What was your field of work? And how did death occur? Knowing all this is extremely thrilling in itself. Through meditation, spiritual practice, yoga, or the माध्यम (medium) of an accomplished person, you can succeed in attaining this thrilling experience. Of course, what is needed is dedication.

If you look at your life in the manner of a philosopher or a seer, you will yourself feel about many habits and many actions, why do I have this habit? Or why do I think like this? Or what is the reason behind my such mentality? And even if you want to, you will feel unable to connect it to any reason in this life. For instance, if your death in the previous life occurred due to falling from a high place, it is possible that you fear heights in this life. Now you may think a lot about why this is so? Why do I feel afraid of going to high places? How will you even get an answer? While taking the next birth, a being cannot forget the essence of its habits and thrilling experiences, and these very impressions are born with it as संस्कार (karmic imprints).

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad clearly states about rebirth that 'life is not only that which has life on one side and death on the other.' This definition is incomplete, meaningless, just as if you let a long rope pass through your room, you can only see the part that is in front of you, while it has gone far ahead and is coming from very far behind. For the body, the scriptures say that it is just like when you discard your old clothes and wear new ones.

Similarly, when the body becomes diseased, weak, or injured, your life force, your soul, leaves that body and takes on a new life. But the existence of life was there in the previous body as well, and it is in the present body too. The memories, thoughts, and ideas of that life also come along into this life at the time of birth. It is possible that in the previous life, the relationship you had with your husband or wife in the current life was hostile. Now, in this life, even if you are husband and wife, you do not feel affection or attachment towards each other, and on the other hand, you feel a deep attraction towards a person who is no one to you. Due to circumstances, you may not be able to enter into a marital relationship with them, yet your soul repeatedly draws you towards them. The bonds of society restrain you, or you are married, yet they give you a feeling of great closeness, why? It is possible that they were your husband, wife, or lover in your previous life. The life force and the soul will consider the same person as husband or wife who was so in the previous life. The body... society... circumstances... will say this is wrong, but nature also fully cooperates in bringing you together. That is why it is often heard that it was destiny that marriage happened there even unwillingly, or did not happen even when desired.

In the same way, many questions of the present life are linked to the previous life as a chain. The only misfortune (or good fortune) here is that you do not remember the previous life, but life is more authentic than the body. Therefore, past relationships and संस्कार (karmic imprints) cannot be denied.

The Upanishads describe three types of bodies: the स्थूल शरीर (sthula sharira - gross body), the सूक्ष्म शरीर (sukshma sharira - subtle body), and the कारण शरीर (karana sharira - causal body). The mystery of death is hidden within these bodies. The accumulated knowledge, संस्कार (karmic imprints), and desires on the सूक्ष्म शरीर (subtle body) and कारण शरीर (causal body) take on a स्थूल शरीर (gross body) again according to their qualities.

Yogi men easily know the संस्कार (karmic imprints) and events of previous births through ध्यान (dhyana - meditation) and योग (yoga). And now, by knowing these mysteries through hypnosis, help is being obtained in solving many unsolved mysteries. When a person is in a hypnotic trance, their conscious mind becomes semi-dormant, and the unconscious mind becomes sensitive to act according to suggestion and answer the hypnotist's questions. Through suggestions and cues, the memory stores of many lifetimes of that person's unconscious are opened. The person then not only unfolds the mysteries of their many births layer by layer but also actually experiences their past time.

Once, during a hypnotic regression experiment, a woman living in New York saw herself standing on a bridge in London. Upon being questioned by the hypnotist, 'Major Knight,' she said, "I see that I am a woman of about 44 years old, very short in stature. I can see large lumps of flesh hanging from my arms."

Suddenly, piercing screams started coming from the woman's mouth. After some time, in a terrified voice, she said, "All those people together hanged me." After knowing about this tragic event of the woman's past life, many of her mental illnesses in this life were cured. Usually, in many cases, small children bring memories of their past lives with them and then gradually forget them. Many people are left with hazy memories. Many people see scenes related to past lives in their dreams.

What effect the recollection of a past life will have on this life depends on when the person started remembering the memories of the past life. In many cases, that memory store suddenly opens up, and then everything is remembered upon recollection.

But in all these cases that have come to light so far, one thing has been observed: when children with memories of past lives come into this life, they remain in wonder about where they have come. Their home was somewhere else, their parents were someone else, they had a wife, children? But this place is completely new, and their wonder is also natural because they do not realize that this is a second birth and that the death of their previous life has already occurred. And until they mature, they continue to grapple with this wonder. Now, the subject worthy of contemplation is, what if you are very well aware while taking a new life that you are going through the process of rebirth? Meaning, you are fully conscious at the time of birth that you have taken your new birth. Every experience, every event, all the संस्कार (karmic imprints) from the previous life are with you, then what will happen?

If you were a professor of physics or a scientist in your previous life, and in this life, as soon as you are able to walk, move, and speak, and you are admitted to the first grade, what will be your condition? People are looking at you as a child, and you also understand that you are being considered a child. Ultimately, you will have to compromise and learn the alphabet.

Because if you tried to prove E=MC2, it would depend on your circumstances whether you would be taken to a sorcerer or to psychologists, and it is very possible to a psychiatrist.

Now, seriously consider the above event or problem and try to understand what you would actually do if the same happened to you.

Because a similar incident happened with Sant Ravi Shankar Paramhans. This is a rebirth of a Paramhansa. "Paramhansa" is the best and highest state of a Yogi, 'where the Advaita Yogi of Vedanta' says, 'Aham Brahmasmi, Dwitiyo'nasti.'

That is, through Yoga, a Yogi attains perfection in this state. There is nothing else in the universe; the entire universe is contained within me. This state is called the Advaita (non-dual) state. This is the rebirth of a non-dual Yogi who remembered many of his previous births, every experience, every संस्कार (karmic imprint) was with him at all times. If we assume that he carried the experience of only the last two births as his wealth, then his age was three hundred and fifty years even before he was born because the previous birth, according to the evidence found, was also of a saint who had lived for 250 to 300 years. Regarding Ravi Shankar Paramhans, all the things that you and I want to know – how it feels to be three hundred and fifty years old at the time of birth, who his parents are, where he attained Siddhi (spiritual power), who his guru was, how he came to Rawatpura – for this, we will have to go to Chhipri village in Tikamgarh, a very peaceful and beautiful district of Madhya Pradesh, which is the birthplace of this physical form of Sant Ravi Shankar Paramhans. There, the same incident happened with his birth for which I was asking you to feel, and due to which the situation became such that people were looking at him with the eyes of a child, and he was looking at people with the eyes of children.