Message #30301

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Some of Gods laws can often be discouraging because we have a difficult time abiding by them. I was just addressing this issue of discouragement and depression when the inner meaning came to me after an awakening awareness. Sometimes the realization that we are facing the consequences of past actions from past expressions on this planet can be jarring and discouraging because this may not be the first time we have made the same mistakes but they are mistakes or errors in judgement made in other lives as well.

 
Yogananda makes this comment about reincarnation in this lesson; “Each soul, although immortal is conscious only of its present life once. It is well that we know only that we are playing this drama of life once, to be called back then whence we came. Many people would postpone their effort to do their best if they knew that they were to have another chance, and many would not have the courage to try to play their life drama well if they knew that they had acted very poorly in their former lives.”

Perhaps then we should take some encouragement from the knowledge of past lives that we are now at a point in our spiritual evolution to face some of the consequences of our past actions from previous lives in this present incarnation.

It may also help us understand why some people blame circumstances on others and not on themselves. Also, why we often recoil in the face of being judged and feel discouraged ourselves.