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cr curse leads to the rebirth but studying the causality from the moral point of view, it appears that the real cause is the karma of the individual concerned, not the Săpa or Vara. We have the following cases in the Purāṇas
1. According to the Brahimavaivarta Purāpa, Nárada was cursed by his father Brahmā for disobeying his father in connection with the process of creation of the family. Self-controlled Nárada put lot of questions to his father, and the annoyed. father (Brahmā) cursed him to be born as Upbarhana Gandharva with a long life and with a number of children,
2. Sati worshipped Siva and He appeared to give Her wishful boon. Pārvatí expressed her wish to be His wife.2 :
SECTION 11 . The question of Jātismara or the faculty of remembering of the past life comes up in the course of the study of these rebirths. The word Jatismara is generally used in Yogic literature in the sense of a person who remembers his previous lives. This power of recollection is due to certain causes, we may state two causes in particular
1. The Yoga literature points out that it is possible for a man to remember his previous life if he is able to have a direct vision of the pasť Samskāras lying stored in his memory, In the Yoga Šāstra, we hear a great Yogi like Jaigīşavya who was able to remember all the series of his past life both in heaven and in hell through Yogic faculty. In the Paurānic stories, we generally find that their faculty remembering the past life ( Jātismaratā ) is often due to external causes, such as a dip in some holy water, or a vision of some sacred Devatā, of seeing some allied picture or it may be also due to some other occasional causes.
Jātismaratā is very wide in its scope and the power possesses several degrees of perfection. A person who remembers the event 1. Brahmavaivarta Purāņa, Brahma Khanda 8, 54 2. Skanda Purāņa, Kedūrakhanda 22. 84-86 :
