What’s the Best Way to Work with the Karma of Our Past Lives?

Don’t worry! What we’ve done in our past lives are not things that we need to directly work with now. Those things are in the past…they’re done, and we can’t rewind life to redo them. What we face in this life are the fruits, the karmic repercussions, of those actions. And, it doesn’t really matter where those fruits came from. What matters is what is currently in front of us — what is arising for us right now.

In this beautiful teaching, Sadhviji emphasizes that you should focus on where you are now. Ask yourself “What should I do in this moment?” And, to find that answer, you must understand who you are. And, to understand who you are, you must meditate.

The actions we’re doing right now are planting seeds that will give fruit in the near and far future. Our work with our past lives is simply to see it, acknowledge it, bow to it, take any lesson that is needed from it – and, then, let it go and move into the present moment. Focus on where you are right here and right now so that you can be fully aware and present in this moment. Face forward, instead of back.