Capitolo 15
funeral vigils on and I handed or produced the garment of a new body, only
in the same way as us I handed new suits after having thrown away the
old and worn-out one. This way the continuous soul to manifest been ended
and on new or on the human creature or some other airplane of existence,
being tied up from the Law of Karma or Cause and Sequence.
"Death, so he/she called, it is but the oldest matter dressed
In of the new form. And in a various vest,
From tenement tenement although it launched,
Still the soul is the same one, the figure only lost."
_Poem on Pythagoras, the Ovid._ of Dryden
To him you/he/she can be asked here, if we existed first our birth because ago us not
memoirs? This is one of the strongest objections elevated against often
the belief in pre-existence. Some people deny the existence of the
soul of past simply because they cannot remember the events of
their past. Others, again of what it holds memory as the standard
existence, says, if our memory of the present cessations to exist to the
death's time, with him we will also stop being; we cannot be
immortal; because theirs contain that memory is the standard of the life, and
if we don't remember then us we are not the same beings.
Vedanta responds to these questions saying that it is possible for us
to remember our preceding existences. Those that you/they have read Yoga of "Raja"
it will recall that in the 18 aphorism of the third chapter that is said:
"Perceiving the Samskaras one the knowledge of past acquires
life." Here the Samskarases intend the impressions of the past experience
what they lie inactive in our subconscious, and it is never lost. Memory
it is not anything but the awakening and rising above of latent impressions
the threshold of conscience. A Yogi of Raja, through powerful
the concentration on these inactive impressions of the subconscious minds,
you/he/she can remember all the his/her events of past life. There have been many
examples in India of Yogi that you/he/she could not only know them really past