Pure Inspiration

Ven. Pannipitiye Upasama and Nimal Sonnadara – 119
Past Lives and Karma
One day Bhante said that in the past, not only did he perform
wholesome activities, but unwholesome ones as well. He was having
migraine headaches even after becoming a monk, and wanted to know
the cause. He told me that after a deep meditation, he realized what
had happened in the past to make him suffer so much from migraine:
during the time of the Crusades, he was a German soldier and there
was a battle with the Romans in a German village. One Roman soldier,
short in height, approached him and he gave a blow to his head with
the club which killed him.
Then in the life after, he was in the Army again and this time he fell
from the horse he was riding and had injuries. He could remember
lying down, near a monument, taking his last breath and thinking,
‘Why did all this happen to me and why did I join the Army?’ He then
passed away, as did his horse.
In another life, he remembered he was in a church during a battle.
Fire surrounded the church and he could not get out. Through the
window he saw the bell ringer jumping from the tower. He too jumped
out, was injured and died. Afterwards he became a ghost, and whilst
roaming around he saw the villagers coming to put the fire out. They
saw him as a ghost. He was shy and slipped away to another place
where he met a friend who was also a ghost and they had this brief
conversation, ‘Ah! You are here?’ ‘Yes I am also here.’
In a recent previous life, he remembered he was a farmer and was
arranging hay at a high place in a barn. He fell and had a serious head
injury and, as he was taking his last breath, he saw his two children