Do you remember your past lives?
Do I know my past life? As far as some say recollections are concerned, no I have never had any recollections like that so that's no paranormal but to some extent our mind is a template for understanding who we were and who we will be when we go from one body to another it is not just the soul that goes, the soul goes with the mind so the soul goes with the mind that means all of us we have certain intuitions I was in London I was doing a talk on the incarnation and for that program two twins had come and those two twins they were what is called identical twins or in scientific terminology monozygotic twins that means when the sperm and the egg unite one zygote is born and then that one zygote splits into two and then they are two so they are not just similar, they are identical 100% identical and yet they are two different ones now why is that? so it is because although genetically they are identical spiritually they are distinct, they are individual so their spiritual individuality and they have a mind, soul has come from different pathways into that so their mind has different intuitions, one of them is extrovert, the other is introvert that is because they are different so I have given this example to illustrate that so there is no biological reason for such a radical difference in personality between these two people so if somebody is introvert in this life that means they can understand in a broad way that they must have cultivated some introvert tendency in their previous life somebody is extrovert in this life that means they have cultivated that kind of tendency so by broadly looking at our mind, looking at our natural life, looking at our intuitions we can get some indication of what we were in a previous life but it's interesting that although as I said we may feel it will be fascinating if I know my previous life but without philosophical understanding it doesn't lead to really transformation one of the celebrity cases of incarnation which are not included in my book because it was a celebrity case basically basically there was a ship Titanic which was one of the main designers for that ship was a person named Thomas Andrews and he was on the board of Titanic when it died and then he was blamed for its faulty design and this Thomas Andrews reincarnated as William Barnes and he remembered many precise details of what all events happened in the Titanic sank and not only that he actually explained how was it that a ship that was so strongly designed which when it was made was advertised as a ship that even God can't sink now how did it sink? so he explained that he said that when he had been testing the ship at one time he took a hammer and hit it and when he hit it at one point a loud resonance happened and at some other points resonance didn't happen so much at some specific points it happened and he said that this is not what we need to do we need to thicken the hull of the ship so that the resonance will not happen or the other person who was the main financier and more of the black he said no we don't have time for this just forget it and then that black he survived the Titanic sinking and he laid the whole blame on Andrews so William Barnes he gave the whole theory explaining how Titanic sank and from his facts many neutral observers concluded that he was a reincarnation but why I am telling the whole story is when William Barnes was asked if you are the reincarnation of Thomas Andrews what does it mean for you he said the mission of my life is to clear the good name of Thomas Andrews there is no spiritual inclination at all oh Thomas Andrews is maligned I will now clear his good name so whether we remember our past lives or not that will not transform our life as much as whether we philosophically assimilate a spiritual conception of life that's why if somebody remembers the past life that's fine but that's not as important as whether we truly understand the meaning of life in this life.