Can the soul remember its eternal position?
Can the soul remember its eternal position it's not so much a remembrance it's more of a realization so remembrance when we talk about remembering something is something which was there in the past and now we have forgotten it whereas when you talk about realization it is that which is the reality i understand it to be reality so as far as our eternal identity is concerned that's a realization that will come by the practice of bhakti so the more we keep practicing bhakti yoga what we are doing is we are remembering krishna so our situation is like say there is a person who is a very wealthy billionaire's child but you know they met with accident fallen from a cliff or something banged their head lost their memory then they're trying to remember they can't remember then what is one of the ways to cure amnesia is expose them to stimuli from their past do you remember this pen do you remember this watch do you remember this car do you remember this do you remember that just by exposing them oh yeah i remember something i remember something so like that by exposing the stimuli from one's previous life the memory gets awakened the whole process of bhakti yoga is exposing ourselves to the stimuli center of krishna in our eternal donation in our eternal position krishna is the closest of centers so the deities the holy name krishna's message in the bhagavad-gita the bhagavatam pictures about krishna all these are stimuli that will gradually remove our spiritual amnesia and as the spiritual amnesia goes off then our awareness of who we are will naturally awaken so that process is gradual but the realization is subtle it's like every morning if you go out for a morning walk or we do meditation early morning before the sun rises now it's dark now it's dark now it is dark hey the sun has risen it's daytime actually the sunrise is happening every day so every moment the sun was rising rising but our realization is at one particular moment it's daytime so like that every day that we practice bhakti yoga every day that we chant the holy names every day that we remember krishna the sun of spiritual awareness is rising in our heart rising, rising, rising and one day we will realize this is who i am that will come under realization by the gradual practice of bhakti yoga okay thank you any other questions yes.