Vedanta philosophy : five lectures on reincarnation / By Swami Abhedananda.

  • Abhedānanda, Swami.
Date:
1902
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    have gained some experience. The particular events and the struggles which you went through are passing out of your memory, but the experience has moulded your character,and the knowledge, which you have gained through that experience, has shaped you in a different manner. You will not have to go through those different events again to remember how you acquired that experience. It is not necessary, the wisdom gained is quite enough. Then, again, we find among ourselves persons who are bom with some wonderful powers. Take, for in- stance, the power of self-control. One is bom with the power of self-control highly developed, and that self-control may not be acquired by another after years of hard stmggle. Why is there this difference? Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna was bom with God- consciousness, and he went into the highest state of Sam^idhi when he was four years old; but this state is very difficult for other Yogis to acquire. There was a Yogi who came to see Ramakrishna. He was an old man and possessed wonderful powers, and he said: “I have stmggled for forty years to acquire that state which is natural with you.” There are many such instances which show that pre-existence is a fact, and that these latent or dormant impressions