Evolution of love

Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma

Question: "Why does not one remember one's former lives?"

Anandamayi Ma: "Through ignorance; there is no knowledge due to the veil that hides it."

Question: "But why should there be a veil?"

Anandamayi Ma: "Having entered the kingdom of forgetting, everything is forgotten; this world is the abode of non-remembrance."

Question: "Why should so very much be forgotten? A small portion might at least be remembered!"

Anandamayi Ma: "You say, do you not, that the Lord Buddha talked about the events of five hundred of his previous lives. Can you recall everything that
you experienced in your present birth, from your childhood until now? You die at every instant without being aware of it. . . . A yogi can perceive the
impressions of a great number of past lives. One may see the events of thousands of one's former births, but when the realization has come of what
creation with its ascending and descending currents in reality is, what will be seen then? . . Where everything that exists is revealed in its fullness
- this is called Self-revelation, That Itself, the Self-Luminous One. . Who is that Self? He, and none but He. So long as He, the Self, has not been revealed, you are imprisoned within the boundary; boundary means ignorance, and therefore there is forgetting."