Is there any possibility to learn about our committed sins in previous birth?

[Smt. Archana Shukla asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ swāmiji🙏 Is there possibility to learn about our sin which we have committed in last Janma. We as a human being getting fruit of our own Karma but still questioning why I am getting this? Why I am getting that? Is there any way to satisfy the query because may be after knowing that why I am getting all suffering that is only and only because of my own Karma, we will get power of bearing and stop questioning and doubting God's judgement. Forgive me, if my question is stupid. At Your lotus feet 🙏 Your devotee]

Swāmi Replied:- We need not search for the sin done in the previous birth because the same sin is being repeated by us in this birth also. After undergoing punishments for our sins in the hell, our souls are still with the reduced odour of the same sins. The intensity of the sinful quality is reduced, but, it is not completely removed. This remaining trace of odour of sins is called Karmaśeṣa. Even though, this trace of odour shall be called as Guṇaśeṣa or Saṃskāraśeṣa in strict sense, it is called as trace of action remaining (Karmaśeṣa). At this subtle level, the action and its quality are not distinguished like the future tree is not distinguished from the present seed of it. This Karmaśeṣa (Samskārashesha) makes the child (soul born) to be very innocent and sinless so that we often misunderstand a child to be the pure form of God! The odour of the sin is not expressed since it is very weak being a trace only. The child of the demon expresses this odour of sin even in its childhood!

The child is like a thief relieved from the police station after being subjected to a very serious third degree torture. Such thief will be like a Saint for some days, but, slowly will regain his nature due to the influence of congenial atmosphere. This trace of the sinful odour drags the soul towards its corresponding atmosphere only in the world. The result is that the seed becomes sprout and slowly becomes the huge tree. In such case, why people say that they are undergoing punishments here due to their previous actions done in previous births? The answer is simply hypocrisy. Everybody wants to project himself or herself as a pure soul without doing any sin in this birth! Due to this false projection, everybody says that he or she is punished not for the sins done in this birth, but is punished due to some unknown sins done previously in some unknown previous births! Human being is really the incarnation of hypocrisy!

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