Just as Nalakuvera-Manigriva were given remembrance their past lives, why can’t we be given remembrance of our past lives?

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Narak Muni when he cursed Narak Muni, he also told them that you will remember your mistake while you are in a tree body so why can’t a similar arrangement be done for everyone if we remember our past mistakes then we can rectify yes recollection of the past wrongs is often a strong prompt for not repeating those wrongs however that is not necessarily that does not necessarily work like that basically there are two different points over here one is that when we remember the past mistakes that may trigger some repentance within us that may trigger some determination within us I don’t want to repeat this now when that is happening what is the purpose or what is the motive we know that ultimately we want to develop love for Krishna and if I am practicing some bhakti or I am doing something simply because of the fear of the consequences of the wrong doings then that is still I am practicing at the level of fear it’s not at the level of love at all so that may that may help some people in at least stopping wrong doing but that is not necessarily conducive for developing bhakti itself we see Ajamil’s past time when Ajamil saw the Vishnudutas who came to his rescue when the Yamudutas were about to take him he was very grateful but it is not that at that time itself he was delivered after that he strongly atoned for his sins and then after a severe atonement for many years the same Vishnudutas came and took him that’s why when that book was published about Ajamil it is not called deliverance it is called second chance so he was delivered from that danger but then after that he had to manifest the transformation of his art that means that what happens to us shapes our actions but it doesn’t determine our actions our actions are determined ultimately by our own free will and sometimes something may happen and that may prompt one reaction in one person, another reaction in another person so if the fear if the fear of the wrong doing and the consequence of the wrong doing that is what is prompting me to stop that is ok motive but that is not the motive of love at all when you develop positive love for Krishna and Nalakur and Manigreev as the trees Yamaraju trees it is not that the remembrance of their past wrongs was what got them into the devotional consciousness it was beholding the pastimes of Krishna while they were in the Maharaj court here that is what inspired them infused them with devotion so ultimately it is a Jeeva who has to use one’s free will properly and certain resources may be helpful certain resources may not be helpful so yes from our perspective we say if I remember in the past what wrong I had done it will help me to face life but it’s not really it doesn’t always work like that because we see that again Hiranyakashipu in the Bhagavatam he says that he actually gives a whole lecture on how we are not the body we are the soul in the 7th canto and then he got this conclusion therefore I will kill Vishnu and he says I will perform austerity and I know it is very difficult to kill Vishnu and in performing austerity and trying to get power that will be big enough to kill Vishnu I may even die but I don’t worry I won’t worry because I am the eternal soul so I will continue the austerity in my next lifetime and for many lifetimes I will do the austerity till I get enough power to kill Vishnu so the knowledge of the soul has not led to any any devotion at all in fact the idea of afterlife without a spiritual conception of life can actually be very dangerous you know the jihadis who are ready to die and kill why are they doing it it’s not they have so much love for Allah they have some mullahs have interpreted some words in a particular way from the Quran not from the Quran from the hadith where they say that every jihadi who dies will get 73 virgins in in paradise and it is for those 73 virgins that they are giving up their life so now now when they are thinking like this see they are believing in an afterlife but their conception of the afterlife is simply materialistic so because of that what happens they don’t get any benefit they are actually not benefit in the sense that benefit in terms of transformation of their heart what has happened is they simply have extended their materialism to the next life and knowledge can help but how it can help depends basically on the intention of the person so knowledge of afterlife without a spiritual conception of life can actually be dangerous it does not have to be dangerous but it can be dangerous similarly knowledge of past wrongs it can help but the point is it is simply even if it does it inspires us to practice religion at the level of fear and for some people it may not even do that I have written a book on reincarnation and there I tried to do a study of many many cases of people who remembered their past lives and it’s interesting there are thousands of cases of children who have remembered their past lives but practically none of these children have become spiritual isn’t it none of them practice spirituality seriously like one of the most dramatic cases there was one Thomas Andrews who was a designer of the Titanic one of the designers and he sank over there and then later on there was a person named William Barnes who claimed to be reincarnation of Thomas Andrews and he gave till now till date the most satisfactory explanation for why the Titanic sank so quickly so he said that when he had designed the ship and at that time when he was going to before that maiden voyage he tested it so he had a hammer and he hammered the hull a loud resonance came and he told there was a black who was the financer he said now we have to thicken the hull because of this resonance if something hits the hull with this resonance we can cause the ship to crack at many places see they had thought that metal will be stronger than wood and metal will not be easily breakable but what happened when the collision happened was there was a resonance in the metal and the ship cracked at multiple places that’s why it sank so quickly and through a computer simulated model when they did that it more or less was concluded that his explanation is quite one of the best explanation that he has got and so at least he is convinced and many other people are convinced that he as William Barnes is the incarnation of Thomas Andrews but he says that black who was the financer he escaped on lifeboat and Thomas Andrews sank and then black blamed Andrews saying that he did not design the ship properly that’s why the ship sank so William Barnes says the mission of my life is to clear the good name of Thomas Andrews so even when one knows about the past life that does not really inspire one to become spiritual so remembrance of past life or past actions and their consequences is no guarantor of changing of heart so by nature’s arrangement when we start a new life it’s a new chapter so we are not burdened by the memories from the past and in general there is a cause effect based on this life itself I do something wrong some results come up but sometimes there are certain causes which have results of future life which are coming from causes of future life from previous life but basically each life is like a new chapter and that’s why most of the things that we see in this lifetime they are based on this lifetime’s framework did I answer your question?