LinkedIn Question:

Manish Soni  1st degree connection1stManager IT at Binani Cement Ltd

If we recall previous birth; what can we do with that memory?

 Mi~Beloved's Response

Recollection of previous birth gives the yogi the advantage of understanding how he was transported into the new birth circumstance, on the basis of his and the prior acts of other persons whom he meets in the present life and in whose association he is tailored to relate and act in a certain way.

It gives him a perspective on how history unfolds so that he can understand the ways of destiny rather than be like an ordinary person who can only rationalize everything in terms of what happened in the present birth only and also what happened collectively according to the report from books about history.

An example of not understanding this was King Bharat, son of Rishabha, who by emotional relationship with deer took a deer body and then resumed human embryo but in the resumption remembered what happened consciously and took steps to act in a way which prevented his assumption of a lower species.

Just to be good, to follow moral principles, is not enough to prevent lower birth or haphazard birth circumstance. Bharat was a good guy and his act of sheltering and being affectionate to deer was good and praiseworthy but its results were degrading nevertheless. Hence if one can remember the past live(s), and if one applies the insight derived one will act in a way which will prevent one from taking lower births which may cause one to completely lose the foot hold on self-realization.