Why does krishna ji make people forget about past lives ?

Akshit April 26, 2026 at 8:44pm

Hare Krishna prabhuji

Sometimes Krishna do give the person their past life's memory but not when needed or when he desires

An Israeli scientist wrote a book in which he told about an incident he witnessed where a young child in a village used to tell the people that he was murdered, when he repeated this multiple times people came to notice. He lead them to the neighbouring village and there he named his last neighbours . People where shocked as to how the child knew about them when he never saw them before and was very young to travel alone. He then went to a person and called him his murderer. The person was also frightened to hear that so people became cynical of him. The child also led them to a place and told them to dig there. When they did they found a skeleton which had a brorken skull and the marked matches the boy's head's mark (birth mark) and the man behaved insanely so he was jailed by people.

This is one of many such incidents. If you search on Google you will find many. Also BHARAT MAHARAJ had the memory of his previous births that is how he was able to get out of his miserable condition as deer. So when required Krishna does gives memories.

Now suppose, if in next life a man get a woman's body but has his past memory will he be able to live like a woman then ? So forgetting past life is important.

As to why we see rapes and stuff happening, then you should remember that draupadi when she was being disrobed cried for help to Krishna but till she holded her saree with her hand(s). He didn't come , only when she surrendered completly , she was saved. Of course even if someone doesn't surrender they will be given justice as the aggressors will be punished in hell and next lives.

Ayush > Akshit April 28, 2026 at 11:16pm

Thank u mataji but I think my questions are still haven't answered yet

Like u said "Sometimes Krishna do give the person their past life's memory but not when needed or when he desires " and the examples u gave of like israel scientist and bharat maharaj it shows that removing memories are not permanent if he wants to he can let u remember and if he doesn't wants to then he won't let u remember then where is freewill ?

Now like u said "As to why we see rapes and stuff happening, then you should remember that draupadi when she was being disrobed cried for help to Krishna but till she holded her saree with her hand(s). He didn't come , only when she surrendered completly , she was saved. Of course even if someone doesn't surrender they will be given justice as the aggressors will be punished in hell and next lives. ". By being punished in hell or next live it still will not help the soul who did wrong (to be liberated or to not to repeat mistakes again) it just will give them punishment that they deserved.

Draupadi maa's example actually makes things much more horrible than better first of all draupadi maa was an adult women she knew what's happening is wrong and when she doesn't get help from any of the family members she turned to God completely surrendering knowing nobody can help.

Now say same things for a 6 or 8 year old child getting raped she doesn't even know what is god etc. she doesn't even know what is happening to her she don't even know what sex is how will she surrender to god ? So does it means that krishna will say that child didn't surrenderd to me so i didn't helped ?

So it shows that krishna will see that if that 6 old girl is pure or not or surrendered or not or else he is not gonna help ?

krishna removes memory without asking without consent of the soul without requiring surrender first he simply does it removing souls memories without asking in the name of compassion or mercy
But a child must achieve complete spiritual surrender before receiving protection ? Wahhh

Isn't it duality of God like to help someone he needs complete surrender from them but he doesn't care to ask or care about souls when removing memories?

Now like u said "Now suppose, if in next life a man get a woman's body but has his past memory will he be able to live like a woman then ? So forgetting past life is important. "

Is it important to live like a women or men ? Cause a soul have no gender to begin with , it have lived as a man , women , cow , dog , insects across countless lives even in spritual world a soul can be brother or sister of krishna mother or father of krishna child of krinsa or wife of krishna etc. even a insect or any animal etc. a soul can be anything it doesn't actually matter to live as a women or men etc.

tha goal of the soul is to love God go back to home, goal is not to live perfectly as a women or man or insect.

My last point is very simple too as per Gaudiya Vaishnavism, souls fell from the spiritual world that means every soul had a first material life — which should have been in Satyuga, closest to divine consciousness or purity, if souls retained full memory from that very first life, the entire degradation through Tretayuga, Dwaparyuga and Kaliyuga would never have happened draupadi maa's situation would never have occurred the Yahudi girls would never have suffered. Memory removal didn't just fail to protect, it may have actively enabled the conditions that made these horrors possible. If a soul had memories from very first life it wouldn't choose anything wrong cause it would have known what is wrong what is right and would have full knowledge so it would have focused on going back home instead of remain here.

Again as I said my questions haven't been answered yet, they are still the same

For krishna to remove memory requires zero consent from the soul. But to help a child or any women who getting raped requires perfect surrender from someone in their worst moment

Freewill means complete freewill not partial.

Again just to clarify I am talking about all memories from the very first life in material world not just past lives or last 100 lives.

I am just trying to find answers nothing more nothing less.

So please if I said something wrong pls forgive me
- Akshit > Ayush April 29, 2026 at 6:28pm
  
  Mataji? Well I am prabhuji in this body.
  
  Nevertheless , before I try to answer these questions by the mercy and grace of Krishna and srila Prabhupada, can you tell me if go by the name rama krishna or anything like that? 🤨
  
  Now,
  
  You said it shows that removing memories are not permanent if he wants to he can let u remember and if he doesn't wants to then he won't let u remember then where is freewill. there is free will! The child , when he was being murdered in his past life must have wanted revenge, which is common to feel when you are being murdered, so in his next life he got the opportunity to do so and got the killer his punishments. Similarly bharat maharaj had renounced everything for the purpose of becoming krishna conscious, but he fell down, so in his next life he remembered his past life so that he can fullfill the wish of his past life.
  
  Second, you said So it shows that krishna will see that if that 6 old girl is pure or not or surrendered or not or else he is not gonna help ? - we donot know what one has done in his past life , untill there is material body , there are miseries. Does it mean we should stay silent and see them being violated? NO! once in America most probably, something terrible happened to one mataji who was connected to iskcon at that time (I don't know know in details what happened), In response srila Prabhupada with his disciples marched on streets to ask for justice for that mataji. Thus we should act and help such people, so, there are miseries even if you may try to become a devotee, this world is called dukhalyam in bhagavad gita, you cannot expect peace and happiness here fully. Also serving Krishna doesnt means that he will now have to remove all our mesires BUT if majority of the world becomes krishna consciousnes then there would not be such horrible cases.
  
  What should the little girl do in such conditions? First of all it is the responsibility of parents and society to see that a girl of that age is not in a vulnerable condition/place, if somehow or other they fail to do so, then the fate and karma chakr is what will see what happens.
  
  A classmate of mine died while we were in class 10, now we can say "Alas! How terrible that she had to die, what did the little girl do to deserve it?!" But do we know what was her karma in her last lives? What did her parents do to deserve to see their child die ? No , we dont know so how can we blame krishna for that?
  
  Now, Is it important to live like a women or men ? Cause a soul have no gender to begin with , it have lived as a man , women , cow , dog , insects across countless lives even in spritual world a soul can be brother or sister of krishna mother or father of krishna child of krinsa or wife of krishna etc. even a insect or any animal etc. a soul can be anything it doesn't actually matter to live as a women or men etc.
  
  tha goal of the soul is to love God go back to home, goal is not to live perfectly as a women or man or insect.
  
  - everyone in all the varna, ashram's, gender, and body (plant , animals, etc) have to do their prescribed duties, as per shastras. Krishna didnt tell Arjun to stop fighting, NO, he siad thst you fight since you are a ksatriya. If we have a body of a man then we must execute the duties as a man for spiritual elevation too. If one performs his prescribed duties he also get higher birth which can be utilised for bhakti.
  
  ALSO , you donot care about being or acting as a man or woman since our only goal is love for God, but you are going again and again at "why this happened to those girls, why did we get w body without memories, etc." it's quite contradictory.
  
  And also, you are talking simultaneously about past memories and protection and goal of life sometimes, can you tell me how in your opinion would last memories help in protection?