Memory in the Next Body

Memory of this life in the next body will, more than likely, not be there. Why? Because the next body will be created without a memory chamber which supports information from the previous life.

Some yogis, a few, can access memory from one or more past lives but they do so by breaching sealed memory chambers in the subtle body. These chambers are in the subconscious area of the subtle body. Presently we have a surface and a storage memory for most of what happens in this life, but those compartments are dual, being physical and subtle. The physical ones will be lost once the body dies. The subtle ones will be accessible for a time and then will not be available except by special mystic access.

I was in a discussion with a deceased man whom I knew some forty plus years ago. He wanted to know if he would retain memory of his past physical life once he becomes an embryo and is born again through parents on the physical side. I told him that the process of rebirth does not include coherent access to the memory from the past life. This memory is sealed in the subtle body. Its presence there is inaccessible. What is available is the instinct one developed in the past life. That instinct is an impulsive format which arises as particular types of behavior based on predispositions.

The course of rebirth is such that in the hereafter, immediately after the death of the physical body, one has some memory of the physical life. Even though the memory circuits in the brain were destroyed by cell disintegration, still the subtle body carries with its many memories. But as soon as the person is attracted into the subtle body of one of the parents, the access to those memories is disabled, so that there is no memory. This is a thorough inaccessibility. It is so complete that at birth, the person has no recall of what happened previously. It is as if he/she is a new person with no history except the one which will be created after the birth of the his/her embryo body.

We read however that as a newborn child Krishna knew the history from past lives, but he is the exception. The convention is no access to memory of past lives. One relies on instincts in the new life. Hence a yogi should be sure to develop instincts which are desirable so that in the next life his behavior will be as desired. He/She cannot rely on coherent memory.

I experienced where someone who was related to me as a senior relative, departed from his body, took an embryo and then during that state and just after as an infant of a woman, his subtle body assumed its previous adult format and challenged me. That happens but even though this occurs, still that person has no coherent understanding of the incidence. He/She cannot figure it sensibly. It is experienced as unconnected images and ideas in the mind. There is no coherence of it for the infant.