Past Life Access and Hard Drives
Once our forum website was completely washout out on the Internet. We were left with an old backup which was transmitted originally with skips. Re-establishing the site took days of communication first with the server which failed and then with some hosts which we considered as alternatives.
Finally we decided to transfer the site to a small server which was affiliated with the software we use to create the site.
The experience was very spiritual to say the least. That is because if we really want to make advancement we have to convert everything that happens in the material world into spiritual realization.
The similarity between the loss of the site and reincarnation is uncanny. In reincarnation one loses all the files from the past life whereby one cannot recall any past incidence. Or one may recall bits and pieces in a haphazard format and not objectively.
Nature gives no implied or direct guarantee that one will remember the present life in the future. The server we used did the same. In the end when questioned about not having a backup and about not informing us that there was to be a relocation of our data to another computer storage, the host offered sympathies but no accountability. Nature does worse because one cannot even find it to complain about the loss of every memory at the end of the last body.
There are warnings on the Internet by good people who learned the hard way about losing files but most recommendations about securing backups do not prevent mishaps or corruption of data. The possibility of losing even the backups themselves is hardly discussed. In addition there is the event of corruption of backups as they are transmitted across the Internet. There might be data skips and jumps due to numerous causes. How can a novice protect himself against this?
There are several means for backing up files from a server. Which one is the correct one? Can anyone be used to restore a site in a split second?
What is the database of the site?
What is the site’s structure?
Which should be backed up and when?
How often should a backup be made?
How does one know if the hosting service will fail and will lose the site as well as its daily backups which are supposed to be mirror copies?
Turn this around on your material existence.
Who can you question about your files from the past life?
What about the database of that life?
What about the cultural format of it?
Can you remember that?
Do you have a copy somewhere in your mind?
Are you in touch with it through vague hunches of intuition?
Do you repeat any of it through instinctive actions?
If your past life is a hard drive?
Do you have it?
Or better, do you have the mental technology which could display it on a screen of the mind where it is plain to see?
This reminds me about the person who claimed to have all memory drives and who indicated that he could access every one of them:
श्रीभगवानुवाच
बहूनि मे व्यतीतानि
जन्मानि तव चार्जुन ।
तान्यहं वेद सर्वाणि
न त्वं वेत्थ परंतप ॥४.५॥
śrībhagavānuvāca
bahūni me vyatītāni
janmāni tava cārjuna
tānyahaṁ veda sarvāṇi
na tvaṁ vettha paraṁtapa (4.5)
śrī bhagavān — the Blessed Lord; uvāca — said; bahūni — many; me — of Me; vyatītāni — transpired; janmāni — births; tava — your; cārjuna = ca — and + arjuna — Arjuna; tānyahaṁ = tāny (tāni) — them + aham — I; veda — I recall; sarvāṇi — all; na — not; tvaṁ — you; vettha — you remember; paraṁtapa — O scorcher of the enemies
The Blessed Lord said: Many of My births transpired, and yours, Arjuna. I recall them all. You do not remember, O scorcher of the enemies. (4.5)
