Vedanta does not talk of a personal past life, the person that you are or I am, we have no past or future life. Rebirth or reincarnation happens at a general, at a macro level, not at a personal level. It’s the “I” tendency that exists and keeps repeating its existence. Read more...
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Questioner: Past life Karma. You have a chapter dedicated to that. Now, we don’t know our past life Karma, we don’t know. Right? How do we make sure that we are doing the right Karma in this moment and that’s what matters but again sometimes, even after people do the right thing they don’t get the right results. So, how do you stay the cause?
Acharya Prashant: No, these are two questions in one, I will take them one by one. First of all, Vedanta does not talk of a personal past life, the person that you are or I am, we have no past or future life. Rebirth or reincarnation happens at a general, at a macro level, not at a personal level. I, as ‘Prashant’ am not going to take birth again, however, the tendency within me that says “I am Prashant” would remain till the time existence is.
Existence itself is the “I” tendency. So, we could say, “it’s the “I” tendency that exists and keeps repeating its existence in the form of Prashant and Nishant and Anurag and then something and something and something...”.
So, that’s about past lives. The form is new every-time. If the form expects that it’s immortal by way of reincarnation, then it’s not proper. That’s one thing.
