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about as he wishes. He is not subject to the rules and no
one is monitoring his movements. Further, while the
prisoner must stay in the jail until his term is up, the warden
is free to leave – either temporarily or even to give up his
position as jail warden.
Similarly, the enlightened soul is on Earth, knowingly and
by choice, in order to help others attain liberation. He is
free and not bound.
8. Can a person really have any knowledge of a
previous birth? If so is this knowledge beneficial
or does it have disadvantages?
passionately in an earlier life!
Or, imagine that an upstanding young man and a young
woman fall in love. The man goes to the woman’s parents
to request her hand in marriage, and the girl’s father
immediately recognizes the boy as an enemy from an
earlier life. He would never allow his daughter to marry
the man, although perhaps through the last few lives the
man had gone from being a rascal to being a righteous
young man.
So, in this way our lives would be quite difficult if we
remembered our earlier births. Additionally, people talk
about remembering one’s “last life,” but how many lives
do we want to remember? One, three, ten, fifty? Where
would we stop? Eventually, we would be living in a situation
where many people we met had played some role in an
earlier birth, thus preventing us from treating them fairly
and dispassionately in this birth.
Usually people cannot remember previous births. One
must perform great sadhana or go to the saints or special
jyotishi (expert astrologer) to learn about previous births.
It is usually not advantageous to know, which is why the
Divine Plan does not give us easy access to that information.
We have enough trouble trying to navigate through one
life, with one husband or wife, one mother, one father,
9. Why should the soul take birth on earth only?
one job, etc. Imagine if we immediately recognized others
After leaving the human body, can a soul be born
as our previous parents or spouses or vicious enemies? It
would be impossible to remain neutral and unbiased.
in any other form?
When we realize the purpose of rebirth, then it becomes
Imagine that a man is married to a woman with whom he
clear as to why the Earth is the best-suited place and why
is not deeply in love. Certainly he loves her but not
the human body is the best-suited medium. The purpose,
passionately or deeply. However, due to his duties, he stays
as we have discussed, is to work through previous karmas,
married and lives an upright life. Now, imagine that one
to become desireless (through either fulfillment of the
day he sees a very old woman in the grocery store and
desires or through sadhana to eradicate the desires), and
immediately recognizes her as his beloved from an earlier
to attain God realization. The human body – with its
birth. He would have great difficulty not leaving his wife
intellect, compassion, consciousness, yearning,
and family for an old woman whom he lusted for
understanding and wisdom – is the most conducive to
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