Perhaps you are in the womb of your mother, perhaps you are dying in a past life somewhere. Then the master starts asking you where you are. The beauty of the unconscious is that it never lies, it simply says whatsoever is the case. That’s the reason why nature goes on putting barriers between your past existences and allows you only this life’s memories. She may have been your mother in a past life, and if you remember it then you will be in trouble.

If you knew all that you have lived for millennia, from the very beginning, you would get in such a mess, in such madness. Even this small mind - the conscious mind - is so confusing, so disturbing. Nature makes barriers, because it would confuse you if there were no barriers between the conscious and the unconscious, and the collective unconscious and the cosmic unconscious. There are reasons why it is not easily available. So mind is not only that which you know it is yours, it is there - but not easily available. Slowly, one can go deeper and reach, the cosmic unconscious, which has memories of your being trees, rosebushes, stones. Below the collective unconscious is the cosmic unconscious. In it you have memories of your past lives as animals, as birds. That used to be the work of a mystery school - that the master will take you slowly towards the unconscious and the collective unconscious. One can descend into the collective unconscious also - at first with somebody’s help. And below the unconscious, there is the collective unconscious. The unconscious mind is nine times bigger than the conscious it has tremendous treasures, all the memories of your past. Free yourself from beliefs and dogmas if you wish to discover your own truths, says OSHO.

Osho on krishna consciousness