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Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?

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Conversations and Morning Walks

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

He can remember, but not these rascals' mechanical process.
Morning Walk -- June 8, 1976, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: Then suffer. Why you have come to hospital? If you have become attached to the suffering...

Passerby: Good morning!

Prabhupāda: Good morning. Thank you, Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Devotees: Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Passerby: Oh, isn't that nice.

Rādhāvallabha: So the whole time he was in the hospital, all he talked about was how much he was suffering.

Prabhupāda: Don't be attached. (laughs) Rascal. Don't be attached. (devotees laugh)

Rāmeśvara: But the.... Certain psychologists are very, very interested in trying to put a person under hypnosis, and then he can talk about experiences he has had in his past lives. They are very eager to have a person under a certain condition where he will remember experiences from his past life.

Prabhupāda: So why the psychiatrist does not remember? Why he does not remember?

Rāmeśvara: They say that only certain people have the ability to remember.

Prabhupāda: Certain rascals.

Candanācārya: They hypnotize them, and they say, "Remember your last life."

Prabhupāda: And whatever nonsense he says, it is all right.

Candanācārya: Yes.

Rāmeśvara: Is that possible, that the living entity can remember?

Prabhupāda: He can remember, but not these rascals' mechanical process.

Hari-śauri: They say they take him into the subconscious and they extract thoughts from the subconscious.

Prabhupāda: But they say certain people can be done. That means it is nonsense. If it is a fact, if it is a process, then everyone can remember. Why certain? That is their jugglery of words. Cheating.

Mahendra: They also say, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that since little children, little infants...

Prabhupāda: Stop them, all rascals.

Rāmeśvara: (break).... ability that they have studied, they call it ESP, or extrasensory perception, and by this the ability to see through the eyes is greatly increased, and you can, like sometimes they have a playing card and they turn it face down, and the man can guess what is the actual card, and they have all these games, and, in this way they say certain people have special powers.

Prabhupāda: As soon as they say "certain people," that is not fact.

Candanācārya: Actually, they say that potentially everyone has these powers, but some are more developed than others. Also the powers to understand each other's thoughts. (someone passes with a portable radio hearing a news broadcast)

Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Rāmeśvara: The only hope is to read your books, Śrīla Prabhupāda.

Devotees: Jaya.

Page Title:Is that possible, that the living entity can remember (last life)?
Compiler:SunitaS, Rishab
Created:10 of Aug, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1