[Interviewer] Acharya Shree, what are your comments on past lives?
People are talking since centuries in the East about the past life.
But in the Western countries, they never were familiar with the past life.
But they were curious about it. But these past life topics these days in the New Age people and the spiritual people
and among the other Western religions is a big hit. They want to know is there a past life.
Is there life after life? Are we coming from somewhere else?
Are we new here? Or is this only one life?
People have a lot of curiosity about the past life.
Sometimes they try to connect themselves with the past life.
But they're not able to because there are techniques and those techniques are not given to everyone. Why?
Because they can misuse it. Only the guru passes those techniques to the disciple.
Because it is only kept secret, those techniques, between guru and disciple because of disciple is the most trustworthy.
The guru will tell that don't talk about it. The other people might abuse it.
More or less, everyone has the experience of past life since they are babies.
Babies, they dream about past life. Even grownup people they dream about past life.
Sometimes they are connected with the past life. They will see themselves they are something else.
They see their own body even. They will see they were rich or they were poor.
Or they were something special people.
And sometimes you meet a person. "Oh, I know this person!"
So those are all experiences. But the babies and children, they talk about their past life alot.
But parents, they don't seem to be understanding to them.
They think they are just talking.
When a baby said, "Oh, look at that airplane. It used to belong to me", means he was a rich person in the past life.
But we don't pay attention.
Parents can have a big credit for the children if they what is past life means.
Then they can communicate with their children. Otherwise children, they will lost memories about the past lives.
Because when they grow up, they just forget the past life.
Because parents, they don't help them. They're not helpful at all.
They think, "Oh, maybe my child is going crazy!" They will take him, instead of talking to him, they will take him to the psychiatrist.
And they will give him drug. And they will make him sick.
That's why, the doctor wants to make money.
They want you to keep on the pills.
And I am telling you truly today's age usually depend on the pills.
No pills, no life. But lucky are they who are out of this grip of the pills.
They are very lucky. Yes, there are many ways to experience the past life. Sometimes you are meditating.
And you see a lot of images, lot of things in front of you.
And the past life comes through it.
I know one technique I can teach people, but it is practical.
It is not just I can say it. They have to come there for 3 days. They stay there with me and I can teach them.
It is through the heavy breathing. It's very difficult.
But if they might have in that process, they might get the glimpses of the past life.
I just, as I mentioned, more or less, everyone has experiences of their past life.
So it can come through meditation and come through through the dream.
Come through to meet suddenly a person or come through to see to suddenly meet a beautiful animal.
Or when you're visiting a country, some other country, some state, and it seems like familiar to everything.
Those can bring also experiences of the past life.
Past life can be recalled, be remembered.
But only this secret is known by the masters. And it is very dangerous to give to the people.
But who are ready, they will put effort in it. They might practice spiritually.
They might grow spiritually higher. Then maybe guru might trust them.
Might pass those techniques to them.
If you are really, really interested in the past life, let it happen naturally.
Sit in meditation, or stretch your body and sit in one posture maybe.
When you stay in one posture the nonvoluntary mechanism of your body will take over you and it will show the images of your past life.
Like if someone is a newcomer to the Sufi sect. And they will teach you how to dance, how to spin.
They spin and spin and spin. It is hard in the beginning. You might get dizzy.
But when you spin it, the time comes you are taken over by the nonvoluntary mechanism.
That can show you images. That is just an example.
When you stay in one posture, one posture will create that tremendous energy inside of your body, your system will be connected with the past life.
It's very difficult, but it is not impossible. You can do it.
You can experience it through heavy breathing. It can be done.
Through the special expertise in some kind of postures. Or expert in meditating.
Meditative posture. There are different kind of methods. But I will suggest to you if it comes through your dream, be aware about your dream.
Awareness will bring that connection which is you are seeking from your many lives maybe.
So it will suddenly connect you to the past life. And once you are connected with the past life then you will now what to do in this life.
Good or bad. Because you will not repeat those mistakes which you have done in the past life.
If you have memories very fresh about the past life, you will be the best person on this earth.
And that's why I tell people there is nothing wrong if you have past lives experience.
But let it get there fully. Those memories, let it come to you.
Let it be like fresh like in this life.
This life is like a mirror. Standing in front of the mirror, you look at the reflection there.
Same way, your memory will be fresh like you're looking at the mirror.
That will teach you a lot. That will make you the best person. You will not do any mistake in this life.