How to Remember Your Past Lives: Methods and Indications

There are some questions that are very hard to explain.

Why one people born very poor others very rich?
Why one people born very healthy others very ill?
Why one people born with talents others without?
Why one people live more than 100 years, while others live only 1 month?
Why one people live in one place their whole lives, while others always travel?
Why one people born with good character qualities and others with bad?
Why sometimes we meet a person and it looks like we’ve known him for a very long time?
Why sometimes we meet a person and it looks so comfortable to be with?
Why sometimes you can fluently speak another language just after a few lessons?
Why one people have fears and phobias others not?
Why one people listen to one type of music others another?
Why one people prefer one food and others another?
Why one people born beautiful and others ugly?

Quotes about past lives

Paramahansa Yogananda: “Reincarnation teachers that life continues even after so-called death. Body is temporary, but soul lives forever.”

Greek philosopher Plato: “I’m convinced that there is indeed such a thing as repeated life.”
“The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life… Knowledge easily acquired is that which the ending self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.”

Writer Jack London: “I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing through incalculable myriads of millenniums… All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me… Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.”

Mahabharata, Bhagavadgita:
“He was never born and will never die
He does not appear and does not disappear
He just always there
Unchanging, primary, existing
When body dies
He stays as it is.”

Scientific research on reincarnation

There were two scientists who dedicated all their lives to study past lives.

1) Raymond Moody – American psychiatrist, physician. For 30 years he was searching for parents whose kids remember their previous lives. They were checking them and found more than 1000 cases.

2) Ian Stevenson, Canadian psychiatrist and professor. Found more than 3000 cases of reincarnation in Sri Lanka with kids.

When we act, we create habits, skills, tendencies, desires, patterns in our subconscious mind. When a body dies, those subconscious patterns stay at the subconscious level, and when you get a new body, those patterns already are inside of us.

Swami Mukundananda says that at the time of death, the subtle and causal body separates from the physical body, leaving the physical body, and all imprints of the past remain in the subtle body. At the time of death, part of memory is erased, as well as at birth. And children still remember something, but the pressure of life pushes so strong that the person does not remember. They remain in the subconscious. That’s why somebody likes yellow color naturally, and somebody likes mountains. It cannot be explained in one lifetime.

Swami Rama says that if you have bad habits, they remain at the time of death.

There is an idea that is very popular to live, consume, and not think about the future: “You only live once (YOLO), live fast, die young, now or never, no regrets, life is too short, and similar.

By living on those ideas, you start to act without thinking about consequences, karma.

When you get your own experience and confirmation that you live more than 1 life, you become responsible for what you’re doing in life. In most cases you can practice yoga and meditation only because you have experience from your past lives.