I'm not smiling but fine attunement to the sphere of thought of reincarnation is very difficult to obtain.
While I cannot object to your remembrances of your own past lives, I cannot accept references on others, coming from people who are not spiritual giants.
If Yogananda, bro. Bakhtananda or Anandamoy or Achalananda or Daya Mata or Durga Ma say something about a previous incarnation of a specific soul, I'll believe it on the basis of the proven spiritual advancement of the cited saints.
Whereas I could not accept claims coming from other less evolved figures, at least not without some skepticism.
I see your skepticism as a good thing and not bad. Like everything else in life, it is good to have balance. A balance between faith and constructive skepticism that motivates us to look for answers. If you were ever interested I would tell you. But we have more important topics to talk about then me here.
At times I have even been skeptical of spiritual giants as you described it. I can give many examples. Although in most cases if I did not feel a very strong sense that their comments may be wrong 😑 I followed their example over my own. But at times, having been around spiritual giants, I’ve found that some of them have subtle differences in their beliefs and examples. I’ve even found that being in certain groups like for instance SRF their were respectful’ differences. I say this because I rarely saw any thing confrontational. I think this has been a wonderful example for me. Great spiritual people do not contradict and demean one another, they have risen beyond such petty spiritual expression.
