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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1973]]
[[Category:Questions On... Birth, Death, Procreation]]
[[Category:Questions On... Reincarnation, Afterlife, Transmigration of the Soul]]
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<div class="heading">Yes, she remembers of her last birth. That is quite possible. Because we are changing body. So one who can remember about his past life, they are called jāta-smaraṇa... One who can remember about his past life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation with French Nun -- August 13, 1973, Paris|Room Conversation with French Nun -- August 13, 1973, Paris]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yogeśvara: She, she asks you for an explanation of an event that happened to her sister. Her sister died at the age of five and a half years. And just before her death she apparently was able to explain some of her past lifetimes to her mother, that she had formerly been a princess or of noble birth and that now she was being called. Is there some explanation for that?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes, she remembers of her last birth. That is quite possible. Because we are changing body. So one who can remember about his past life, they are called jāta-smaraṇa.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Jāta-smaraṇa?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: One who can remember about his past life. (break) ...means forgetting everything of the past life. (break) ...times a person remembers.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: She asks for a definition of the word "occult." What is something that is occult, something occult or mystic? What is it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Mystic?</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Mystic. What is mysticism?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I do not say anything on mysticism. Mystic, something. It is called rahasya.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Rahasya?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rahasya. Something wonderful. Is that meaning? Mystic</p>
<p>Indian Man: Mystic... I mean. I think when Western historians and literators explain Indian religious literature, especially literature of bhakti-mārga, they term that those are the mystics and also they term the Sufi poets are mystics. (break)</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: ...say mystic means rahasya.</p>
<p>Yogeśvara: Rahasya.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rahasya means it is little difficult to understand. (break) Just like Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā: rahasyam, rahasyam etad uttamam. Rahasyam etad uttamam. This Bhagavad-gītā is the first-class mystic. Rahasyam etad uttamaṁ bhakto 'si me priyo 'si me ([[Vanisource:BG 4.3 (1972)|BG 4.3]]). "Because you are My devotee, you are My dear friend, you'll understand." So mysticism is not understandable by common man. It requires a special qualification. Just like to understand. It is also mysticism. Understand, to understand God. This is also mystic. It is not understandable by ordinary man. (end)</p>
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