Past Lives
Past Lives
This experience we call deja vu is having experienced something already without having experienced it before. The feeling is so certain – absolutely certain – you have done this before, seen this person, this place – this is deja vu.
This occurs because deep in your unconscious, you are carrying all the memories of all your past lives. You are not living for the first time only this life. No. You have lived many lives, many deaths. Thousands of lives and deaths. Life is far bigger than birth and death.
Life begins at the point of your past life’s death. When a child is born you may think this is the beginning. This is not true – and when a man dies, it is not the end. Your life began far before you entered your mother’s womb. All the things that happened in lives before, all successes, frustrations, all failures, betrayals, love affairs, all experiences that were clung to, the Lord Buddha calls desire.
And when you are dying, the whole of this life will run before your eyes – before the body is leaving. The body is not going, the mind is not going with you, the brain is not going with you, but desire released from the mind will cling to the soul and decide your future life. Whatever you collected, what you have brought with you like a seed, that seed will become a tree, bring forth fruit, flowers, and thorns. The whole blueprint is there in the seed.
Everybody can penetrate to past lives. You simply need enough practice to be meditative enough to remain aware past a certain door, a certain unconscious gateway. Once you penetrate that door, a flood of memories come rushing to you.
The significance of this is to see the karma in our lives. It can be a great wake up. You can see patterns as anceint as you are. Once you see how many love affairs you have had, how you have wanted power and money and many times even attained this wealth and prestige, for thousands and thousands of years, you begin to see the endless cycle. You have lived every every possible experience. And the same pattern is repeating over and over.
Existence moves in a circle, not a straight line. It is like a rotating wheel of seasons. If one can see clearly that for many lives they have repeated the same experiences, you will come to one burning question: How to get free from the unconscious actions, unconscious imprisonment – how to awaken and break this chain of suffering over and over? How to end the cycle of life and death? How to become absolutely conscious?
**Over the years from my personal practice, three lives and deaths have been recalled…a small African boy drowning…a woman in France dying of lung disease..and the echoing voice of a master I met in the orient. These events for me personally came in rushes. While sitting and entered penetrating silence, suddenly memories would flash, over and over..recall. These memories would come for maybe two to three days and then cease coming. It would happen spontaneously. Then silence again.
The benefit was seeing the karma! And the silent understanding of why so many events have come to be in this life. Understanding the tree and its fruit.
Deja Vu! It seems I’ve done this before!
