Why do we forget our past lives?

“Hey bro, you said we face karma from past lives in this life, but I don’t remember what I did previously so how is that fair?”

Not true & here’s the tea!

Sanatan Dharma is simply like “Prince of Persia” or any 90s game where you learn from each wrong move & return stronger to get ahead in the game.

This life is just one of many attempts to reach the ultimate level, called “moksha” - a chance to escape the cycle of life because it’s full of challenges and drama.

Now everything you’ve done in past lives, say Life No. 28, results in two things that you carry forward after leaving your body (sthula sharira): karma and samskaras.

Karma isn’t punishment but the Google Drive & sum of all your past choices, turning into consequences or situations that teach you to grow.

If you were a bully a thousand years ago, for instance, you might struggle with friendships now, showing you why kindness matters.

Meanwhile, samskaras are like spiritual body marks - things, habits or people we’re naturally drawn to i.e. tendencies or inclinations because of our past links.

According to the Brahma Purana, the trauma of birth makes us to forget past lives so we aren’t overwhelmed by everything we’ve done in thousands of past lives. Our “memories” aren’t destroyed, they’re stored in a secret vault by “maya” or basically illusion.

This “forgetting” is actually a gift, letting us focus on creating positive karma now, rather than getting stressed out about or lost in manually correcting our endless backlog past mistakes. When you focus on doing good now & moving forward, you will start balancing old karma naturally.

As per Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, you can unlock these memories through intense meditation but that’s just a rare byproduct & not required to grow spiritually.

In the end, getting a human life with access all this spiritual tea is a jackpot because it gives us the chance to understand ourselves. Don’t waste it!