"Man is endowed with memory as well as the faculty to forget. Both these are useful skills. Perhaps the power to forget is even more important, for otherwise, man will have to lament over the loss of millions of parents and kinsmen he had in millions of previous births; man will remember and resent the many insults and injuries he has suffered in previous births. Luckily he forgets all that.
He remembers only those things that have impressed him as significant or crucial; namely, the date of his marriage, the names of those who have to pay him money, etc.
The tragedy is that he has forgotten the most significant and crucial thing about his earthly career, the key to happiness and liberation, his real name and identity!"
~ Baba ~
(Sadhana - The Inward Path)
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