Who are you? Who am I?

Five years ago, I wrote a blog with the following questions and finally got to get answers for some of these from the master whom I met recently; his name is Venkateshwara Rao and he is from Tirupathi. First, lets talk about my questions and the answers given by him

My question is “Do we have multiple lives?”
Ans: Yes

First of all who are you? Or before to that who am I?
Ans: You and I are the same

When I say YOU, Is it your body or your soul?
Ans: Its your soul currently staying in your body

If YOU are your soul, then there is no death for you or if YOU are your body, then after your death, your soul also dies.
Ans: Yes, death is not the end, its just an intermediate stop. Its like you sleep and wake up everyday. In the sleep state you are dead, you dont remember anything, you are in a different world and when you wake up the other day, its like you are born again.

Some geeks say that we are like this because we have done some sins in our previous birth.
Ans: Yes, its true

If that is the case, then I should remember my previous birth right?
Ans: Yes, you can, think and think

Otherwise how do I know what the mistakes I have done?
Ans: Yes, you can find out everything if you practise meditation and inner peace

Since we don’t know anything related to the previous lives (at least I don’t know anything about mine, by any chance do you remember??), then how can I believe the concept of multiple lives?
And what is the purpose of that? If that should exist, then we should remember all of those so that we can analyze ourselves and we can know where we are going…
Like I’m a cat in my previous birth and I have done some good things so only I got a promotion and I became a human being in this life etc. But that’s not happening.. hence the concept of multiple lives is disproved.
Ans: Thats not happening to us because we dont believe that that is possible; we are programmed to behave in a certain way and believe only few accepted things in this world. If we come out of that reality and understand the secret that you are the universe then everything is clear.

I can give you a simple analogy: Is your hand you? or different? If it is not you, then it should exist separately, so cut it down and give it to me; but the moment you cut it down, the hand dies, its of no use. Otherwise if it is you, then how can you call you and your hand both as you?
Yes, you and your hand: both are you. Similarly all the living souls are a part of same universal origin, though they seen to be different, they are the same, their final destination is to join with the universal source.

You might think that you dont have control over the things happening to you; thats not true. The reason for that is you are programmed to beleive those by your parents and others since they also beleived the same. If you sincerely beleive the same (100% - there is no point of decimal system here, its only binary; either you beleive or dont believe; if you beleive 75% and dont beleive 25% then thats meaningless), whatever you think, whatever you wish would happen in your life.

Prasninchadam maani preminchadam nerchuko (Stop asking questions and start loving)