I am Ready, If You Are
5 August 1970 pm in Bombay, India
Question 1
AT THE DWARKA MEDITATION CAMP YOU HAVE DISCUSSED THE PROCESS OF ENTERING INTO THE MEMORIES OF PAST LIVES.
YOU SAID THEN THAT BY DISEG THE SCIOUSNESS PLETELY FROM THE FUTURE, THE POWER OF MEDITATION SHOULD BE FOCUSED TOWARD THE PAST.
EXPLAINING THE PROCESS FURTHER, YOU SAID THAT FIRST RESSES TO THE AGE OF FIVE, THEN TO THE AGE OF THREE, FOLLOWED BY THE MEMORY OF BIRTH, THE POINT OF CEPTION, AND FINALLY INTO THE MEMORIES OF PAST LIFE.
YOU SAID ADDITIONALLY THAT YOU DID NOT IO EXPLAIN THE WHOLE SUTRA, THE WHOLE TEIQUE FOR REMEMBERING PAST LIVES.
WHAT IS THE WHOLE TEIQUE? WOULD YOU KINDLY EXPLAIRA FURTHER.
Memories of our past life have beeed by nature.
There is a reason for it.
It is necessary that in the overall system of ones life one fets most of the things that happen to him every day.
Thats why we dont remember all the memories that we create during our lifetime.
However, that which you dont remember is not pletely erased from your mind.
Only the e between your sciousness and the memory is severed.
For example, if a person lives for fifty years, billions of memories will be formed in his mind.
If he were to remember them all he would go mad.
So he remembers whatever is meaningful: whatsoever is worthless he slowly fets.
But your fetting does not mean the memory is pletely wiped out.
It merely slips out of your ter of sciousness and is stored in some er of your mind.
Buddha has given a very signifit o this storehouse.
He calls it alaya vigyan -- the storehouse of sciousness.
It is just like having an attic or a basement where all the unwahings are stored.
Even though the objects are out of yht, they still remai within the house.
Similarly, your memories go out of sight, but remain accumulated in some ers of your mind.
It would bee difficult to live if you were to recall all the memories of even this life.
In order that the mind stays free to hahe events of the future, the past has to be fotten.
Since you fet what happened yesterday, you bee capable of living the tomorrow.
This way the mind goes on beiy, it is able to look ahead.
In order to look ahead it is necessary tet the past.
Without fetting what has already occurred you wont have the capability to see what is ahead of you.
Every day a part of your mind must bee blank so that it receive new impressions, otherwise how it work? As the future arrives, the past disappears every day.
And as soon as this future bees the past, it disappears too so that we are free to receive what lies ahead.
This is how the mind funs.
We ot carry the full memory of even one life.
You wont be able to recall anything if I ask you what you did on January 1, 1960.
You did exist on January 1, 1960, and you must have done something from dawn till dusk, yet you will be uo remember anything.
A small teique of hypnosis revive the memory of that day.
If you are hypnotized, and a part of your sciousness is put to sleep, and then if you are asked to describe what you did on January 1, 1960, you will ret everything.
For a long time I experimented on a young man.
But my problem was how to be sure of the details he gave of January 1, 1960.
He was able to narrate that day only under hypnosis: in the waking stat