Guest guest Posted June 2, 2006 Report Share Posted June 2, 2006 Every soul when born, is accompanied by some forms of past life fragments, memories, sadhanas, etc. Follow your own instinct when it comes to making decisions. Guess in your case, just lighting a lamp will be best. Every moment is both past and present. Being aware of both "states" is an essential part of spiritual evolvement. This is referring to past lives. On the other hand, if say 2 years ago something happened and the person dwells on it and wallows in it, then the person is "reliving" the incident experienced 2 yrs ago. This is called "living in the past". Living in the "Present" means: Be Here Now. Live in the Now. Forget the stuff from 2 yrs ago. Be confident that you can live on the straight and narrow, etc., if you focus on just this. If I'm too bad for this life, I wouldn't be here either Two sides of the same coin to the saying you'd quoted. , j <barbjs> wrote: > > Dear Narasimhaye, > > It is Sunday morning, and I have thought about these two phenomena (singing and turning in circles), and they are both related to moving in the showing of fire to the deities. OK. I won't move. I will light a lamp for the deities, even a camphor lamp if I can figure out how to do that, and place it on my desk, and they can enjoy it. > > I thought about all of this singing coming from a past life, but that means, then, that part of my consciousness is in a past life while I'm doing this, and it's not good to live in the past, only in the present, or so I have been told. > I will just wear my beads and do my japa because nothing happens to me while I am wearing my beads and doing my japa. The most important thing is to live a good life, and to stay on the straight and narrow, and I can't even do that. Every day opportunities for doing good are presented to us, opportunities to help others, and most of them I just ignore. When I am singing, and part of my consciousness is in a past life, how is that helping the present, when I need all of my consciousness here? So, the gods can enjoy their lamp, but I'm not going to keep waving it. > > Thank you for telling me that sahaja is something that I was born with--something that came from a past life. I couldn't have been too good then, or I wouldn't be here now. As the saying goes, "If you're too good for this life, you wouldn't be here." > > Barbara To send an email to: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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