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not an ordinary love, I have found my soul mate."
Nobody has ever found one -- how can you find your soul mate? Aloneness is absolute. These are just efforts to deceive yourself -- and you can go on deceiving. That's what you have been doing down the ages, for so many lives...
But you forget. And you forget because of the birth trauma. When the child is born he remembers -- he remembers perfectly all that has happened in the past life; he knows it. But the birth trauma is such, the pain of being born is such... He lived in the womb comfortably for nine months -- never again will you be in such comfort, not even an emperor can be in such comfort.
You were floating in warm liquid. And all needs were fulfilled, and you had no responsibility, no worry. You were just fast asleep and dreaming, dreaming sweet things. You were completely protected, secure. Everything was happening of its own accord; not a single effort was needed on your part.
And suddenly one day after nine months, all that world is destroyed. You are uprooted. You were grounded in the womb, you were connected with the mother: you are disconnected. And you have to pass through the birth canal, which is a very narrow canal.
The child feels immense pain. The pain is such that he becomes unconscious. That is a built-in mechanism in the mind -- whenever something becomes unbearable, the mind simply turns you off so that you need not feel it. In fact, to call any pain unbearable is existentially wrong, because whenever pain becomes unbearable you become unconscious. So you have never known unbearable pain -- if you know it, and you are conscious, it is still bearable. Once it reaches to the point where it becomes unbearable, immediately the whole mechanism for consciousness is turned off. You fall into a coma -- a natural anaesthesia.
So each child passing through the birth canal falls into a coma, and that disrupts his memory. And again he starts fooling around in the same old way, thinking that he is doing something new.
Nobody is doing anything new. All that you are doing you have done so many times, so many MILLION times. It is nothing new. This anger, this
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