If you are drawn to Guru," he said, "the chances are you have studied with him in past lives.
And when we are helped, comforted and receive favors from those who we helped in past lives, it is not merely a reward, but the operation of the same law of Justice.
We are apt to be placed in a position to receive hurts from those whom we have hurt in past lives, and this not through the idea of revenge, but by the inexorable working out of the Law of Compensation in Karmic adjustments.
Justin Martyr speaks of the soul inhabiting successive bodies, with loss of memory of past lives.
And those who have this consciousness of past lives, even though the details may be vague, intuitively accept the teachings regarding the future lives of the soul.
We think that this view of the matter is far more along the lines of true spirituality than that of want and disease as "the punishment of sins committed in past lives.
Sceptics are ever bringing forward against reincarnation the absence of all memory of past lives, convinced that there can be no answer to this argument.
Alger, a Unitarian minister, adds: "Our present lack of recollection of past lives is no disproof of their actuality.
For the experience to be properly appreciated it must be remembered that "Mary" had no knowledge of the explanation suggested to me, and neither of us had as yet entertained the idea of past lives as the key to our present work.
This, then, as we came to learn, and to recognise as having learned it in our own long-past lives, is the doctrine which Jesus came to teach and to demonstrate in His own person.
It was recovered by "Mary" under illumination early in 1880, and consequently when we had not fully come to realise the actuality of the doctrine and the possibility of the recovery of the memories of past lives.
A withered arm, a club foot, a deformed back, in this incarnation are results of unfortunate causes which that soul has generated in past lives.
When we are sufficiently evolved to raise the consciousness to the level of the causal body, while still living on the physical plane, as some people are now able to do, we shall thus temporarily recover the memory of past lives.
The karma matter thus accumulated round the soul during the infinite number of past lives is technically called kârmas'arîra, which encircles the soul as it passes on from birth to birth.
But vâsanâ generally refers to the tendencies ofpast lives most of which lie dormant in the mind.
Even at birth children show signs of pleasure by their different facial features, and this could not be due to anything else than the memory of the past experiences in past lives of pleasures and pains.
The evil acts of past lives supply it with vigour.
A person, however, of ripe understanding succeeds, through the auspicious effects of past lives, in destroying his desires.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past lives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
