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Past life means

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

Past life means... As we are not this body, past life means there was another body; we have forgotten it.
Conversation with Italian Woman with Translator -- February 28, 1977, Mayapura:

Prabhupāda: Otherwise we are all part and parcel of God. When we realize this, then our life is perfect.

Italian woman: (Italian-translated into English by translator throughout)

Translator: She's saying that after rediscovering of last past life...

Prabhupāda: Past life means... As we are not this body, past life means there was another body; we have forgotten it. Just like at night we dream, "I have gone to some foreign place and talking with some foreigners and so on, so on." But in the morning that situation is changed and we forget everything. Again, at night we forget this body and we dream in another body. Every night we have experience that we forget this body. This is going on.

Translator: She says she's conscious of the relation, karmic relation, with a person that for last life she's having, and right now that person is also present with her in this life.

Prabhupāda: Past life?

Translator: Yes. She's says that four past lives she's having some relations.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is forgotten or...

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: She says that she's remembered it.

Translator: Yeah. She said she remembers it.

Prabhupāda: If she remembers, that's a special qualification, but generally people forget. It is not astonishing. You can remember, but that is rare, very rare.

Translator: So she would like to know from you, Śrīla Prabhupāda, if you can give her help to solve the situation she's in.

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Translator: If you can give her help to solve the situation she has with this person that she lived for four lives now together.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: How can Prabhupāda help?

Translator: I know.

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: She wants some sort of a... Śrīla Prabhupāda's help is his books, his instructions. She wants some kind of a...

Prabhupāda: Mystic?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes, mystical.

Prabhupāda: It is not possible.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Crystal ball.

Prabhupāda: It is not possible.

Translator: Another thing is that she has a husband, but they don't live together in the same ideas, spiritual ideas. So she wants to know what to do now. Should she go apart from the husband?

Prabhupāda: It has nothing to do with spiritual advancement. It is body. So that is animal conception. Tell her.

Page Title:Past life means
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:01 of Nov, 2012
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