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'''Jātismara''' ([[Sanskrit]]: जातिस्मर) means - recollecting a former existence or birth.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sanskrit-English Dictionary|publisher=Spokensanskrit.de|url=http://www.spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=jAtismara&link=m}}</ref> Such recollection is believed to be a talent which great saints possessed or cultivated.<ref>{{cite book|title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica Vol.10|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=380|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvMpAQAAMAAJ&q=jatismara+vedic }}</ref><br />
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In the [[Buddhist]] [[Nikāya]] and [[Āgama (Buddhism)|Āgama]] literature there is reference to ''jātismara'' as first of the three ''[[Vidya (Knowledge)|vidyās]]'' ('sciences'), as the fourth of the five ''[[abhijñā]]s'' ('superknowledges') and as the eighth of the ten ''[[Tathagata|tathagātadaśabala]]'' (powers of a ''[[tathagata]]''); it is listed as a faculty connected with the higher stages of meditation as a yogic attainment through control of the body and purity of body and conduct, as the result of abiding in a particular ''[[Samadhi|samādhi]]''. The [[Mahayana|Mahayāna Buddhist literature]] refers to ''jātismara'' not as an individual's meditational development but as effected by a [[Bodhisattva]] for improving religious life, or as a religious gain, as an ''anuśamsa'' ('blessing') through a third kind of non-meditational activity but connected with the sacred texts and with ''dhāranīs''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism|author=Gregory Schopen|publisher=-University of Hawaii Press|pages=190–195|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SBD45jetbEC&q=jatismara&pg=PA208 }}</ref><br />
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According to the [[Naradiya Purana]] observance of [[Ekadashi|Ekadashi Vrata]] ('fast') can make a sinless person a ''Jātismara''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Narada Purana|publisher=Diamond Pocket Books|page=45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3E2t04AZG4EC&q=jatismara&pg=PA44}}</ref> The ''Jātismara Vrata'' requires the fasting person to remain silent till the moon rises.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bhavishya Purana|publisher=Diamond Pocket Books|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gORJJvPw6KcC&q=jatismara&pg=PA27 }}</ref> The [[Vishnu Purana]] speaks of Shavya who was born a ''jātismara''-daughter of the king of Kāshi.<ref>{{cite book|title=Vishnu Purana| publisher=Diamond Pocket Books|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u8m441zg_KgC&q=jatismara+vedic&pg=PA68 }}</ref><br />
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[[Bhagavata Purana]] (III.xxvi.30) tells us that memory is a characteristic of intelligence, that ''[[Maya (illusion)|maya]]'' clouds intelligence and causes false identification (III.xxxi.20), that a person when born is bereft of memory (III.xxxi.23) when all wisdom gained in the past birth(s) is lost (III.xxxi.24).<ref>{{cite book|title=Bhagavat Purana|url=http://bhagavata.org/canto3/c3-contents.html }}</ref> Memory is the link between body and soul. And, the [[Mahabharata]] speaks about the place the four seas meet bathing where one has immunity from misfortune; bathing then in ''Jatismara'' with pure mind and senses one acquires the recollections of his former life.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Mahabharata Book 3 Section LXXXIV|page=189|url= http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m03/m03084.htm }}</ref><br />
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