Reincarnation
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Understanding Reincarnation - Reincarnation: Socrates to Salinger (from
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Four-year-old recalls previous life!
Forensic Evidence
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Research Findings Establish Reincarnation
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Manika Manika - the girl who lived twice - the movie intro by New York Times
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Bhagavad Gita - the Science of Self-realisation:
We're not these bodies:
You Know You're Not That
Body... (excerpt from The Life & Legacy of Srtpad Ananda Tirtha Madhwacarya
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In August of 1976, Çréla
Prabhupäda spent a few weeks at Bhaktivedanta Manor, fifteen miles
north of London. During that time Mike Robinson of London Broadcasting
Company interviewed him in his quarters. In their conversation, which was
broadcast shortly afterward, Çréla Prabhupäda revealed
that Kåñëa consciousness is “not some ritualistic ceremony
of ‘I believe, you believe,’ ” but a profound philosophical system in which
the science of reincarnation is explained clearly and concisely.
“For the soul, there is never birth
nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn,
eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval. He is not slain when the
body is slain.”
Mike Robinson: Thank you
very much for reading that. So can you explain to me just a bit more? If
the soul is undying, does everybody’s soul go to be with God when they
die?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Not necessarily. If one is qualified—if he qualifies himself in this life
to go back home, back to Godhead—then he can go. If he does not qualify
himself, then he gets another material body. And there are 8,400,000 different
bodily forms. According to his desires and karma, the laws of nature give
him a suitable body. It is just like when a man contracts some disease
and then develops that disease. Is that difficult to understand?
Mike Robinson: It’s very
difficult to understand all of it.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Suppose somebody has contracted smallpox. So, after seven days he develops
the symptoms. What is that period called?
Mike Robinson: Incubation?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Incubation. So you cannot avoid it. If you have contracted some disease
it will develop, by nature’s law. Similarly, during this life you associate
with various modes of material nature, and that association will decide
what kind of body you are going to get in the next life. That is strictly
under the laws of nature. Everyone is controlled by the laws of nature—they’re
completely dependent—but out of ignorance people think that they are free.
They’re not free; they’re imagining that they’re free, but they are completely
under the laws of nature. So, your next birth will be decided according
to your activities—sinful or pious, as the case may be.
Mike Robinson: Your Grace,
could you go back over that just for a minute? You said that nobody is
free. Are you saying that if we live a good life, we in some way determine
a good future for ourselves?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes.
Mike Robinson: So we are
free to choose what we believe to be important? Religion is important,
because if we believe in God and lead a good life...
Çréla Prabhupäda:
It is not a question of belief. Do not bring in this question of belief.
It is law. For instance, there is a government. You may believe or not
believe, but if you break the law, you’ll be punished by the government.
Similarly, whether you believe or don’t believe, there is a God. If you
don’t believe in God and you independently do whatever you like, then you’ll
be punished by the laws of nature.
Mike Robinson: I see. Does
it matter what religion you believe? Would it matter if one was a devotee
of Kåñëa?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
It is not a question of religion. It is a question of science. You are
a spiritual being, but because you are materially conditioned, you are
under the laws of material nature. So you may believe in the Christian
religion, and I may believe in the Hindu religion, but that does not mean
that you are going to become an old man and I am not. We’re talking of
the science of growing old. This is natural law. It is not that because
you are Christian you are becoming old or because I am Hindu I am not becoming
old. Everyone is becoming old. So, similarly, all the laws of nature are
applicable to everyone. Whether you believe this religion or that religion,
it doesn’t matter.
Mike Robinson: So, you’re
saying that there’s only one God controlling all of us?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
There’s one God, and one nature’s law, and we are all under that nature’s
law. We are controlled by the Supreme. So if we think that we are free
or that we can do anything we like, that is our foolishness.
Mike Robinson: I see. Can
you explain to me what difference it makes, being a member of the Hare
Kåñëa movement?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The Hare Kåñëa movement is meant for those who are serious
about understanding this science. There’s no question of our being some
sectarian group. No. Anyone can join. Students in college can be admitted.
You may be a Christian, you may be a Hindu, you may be a Muhammadan—it
doesn’t matter. The Kåñëa consciousness movement admits
anyone who wants to understand the science of God.
Mike Robinson: And what difference
would it make to someone—being taught how to be a Hare Kåñëa
person?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
His real education would begin. The first thing is to understand that you
are a spirit soul. And because you are a spirit soul, you are changing
your body. This is the ABC of spiritual understanding. So, when your body
is finished, annihilated, you are not finished. You get another body, just
as you may change your coat and shirt. If you come to see me tomorrow wearing
a different shirt and a different coat, does that mean you are a different
person? No. Similarly, each time you die you change bodies, but you, the
spirit soul within the body, remain the same. This point has to be understood;
then one can make further progress in the science of Kåñëa
consciousness.
Mike Robinson: I am beginning
to understand, but what I’m finding difficult is how this ties in with
the large numbers of your people we see handing out Hare Kåñëa
literature on Oxford Street.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
This literature is meant to convince people about the need for spiritual
life.
Mike Robinson: And you’re
really not concerned whether or not they join the Hare Kåñëa
movement?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
It doesn’t matter. Our mission is to educate them. People are in ignorance;
they are living in a fool’s paradise, thinking that when their body is
finished, everything is finished. That is foolishness.
Mike Robinson: And you are
basically just concerned to tell them that there is a spiritual dimension
to life?
Çréla Prabhupäda:Our
first concern is to tell you that you are not this body, that the body
is your covering (your shirt and coat) and that within the body you are
living.
Mike Robinson: Yes, I think
I’ve got that now. If we could go on from there—you said that how you lived
made a difference in your life after death, that there are natural laws
that determine your next life. How does the process of transmigration work?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The process is very subtle. The spirit soul is invisible to our material
eyes. It is atomic in size. After the destruction of the gross body, which
is made up of the senses, blood, bone, fat, and so forth, the subtle body
of mind, intelligence, and ego goes on working. So at the time of death
this subtle body carries the small spirit soul to another gross body. The
process is just like air carrying a fragrance. Nobody can see where this
rose fragrance is coming from, but we know that it is being carried by
the air. You cannot see how, but it is being done. Similarly, the process
of transmigration of the soul is very subtle. According to the condition
of the mind at the time of death, the minute spirit soul enters into the
womb of a particular mother through the semen of a father, and then the
soul develops a particular type of body given by the mother. It may be
a human being, it may be a cat, a dog, or anything.
Mike Robinson: Are you saying
that we were something else before this life?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes.
Mike Robinson: And we keep
corning back as something else the next time?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes, because you are eternal. According to your work, you are simply changing
bodies. Therefore, you should want to know how to stop this business, how
you can remain in your original, spiritual body. That is Kåñëa
consciousness.
Mike Robinson: I see. So
if I become Kåñëa conscious, I wouldn’t risk coming back
as a dog?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
No. [To a devotee:] Find this verse: janma karma ca me divyam...
Disciple:
janma karma ca me divyam
evaà yo vetti tattvataù
tyaktvä dehaà punar
janma
naiti mäm eti so ’rjuna
“One who knows the transcendental
nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body,
take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode,
O Arjuna.” (Bg. 4.9)
Çréla Prabhupäda:
God is saying, “Anyone who understands Me is free from birth and death.”
But one cannot understand God by materialistic speculation. That is not
possible. One must first come to the spiritual platform. Then he gets the
intelligence required to understand God. And when he understands God, he
does not get any more material bodies. He goes back home, back to Godhead.
He lives eternally; no more change of body.
Mike Robinson: I see. Now,
you’ve read twice from your scriptures. Where do these scriptures come
from? Can you briefly explain that?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Our scriptures are coming from Vedic literature, which has existed from
the beginning of creation. Whenever there is some new material creation—like
this microphone, for instance—there is also some literature explaining
how to deal with it. Isn’t that so?
Mike Robinson: Yes, that’s
right, there is.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
And that literature comes along with the creation of the microphone.
Mike Robinson: That’s right,
yes.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
So, similarly, the Vedic literature comes along with the cosmic creation,
to explain how to deal with it.
Mike Robinson: I see. So,
these scriptures have been in existence since the beginning of creation.
Now, if we could move on to something I believe you feel very strongly
about. What is the main difference between Kåñëa consciousness
and the other Eastern disciplines being taught in the West?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The difference is that we are following the original literature, and they
are manufacturing their own literature. That is the difference. When there
is some question on spiritual matters, you must consult the original literature,
not some literature issued by a bogus man.
Mike Robinson: What about
the chanting of Hare Kåñëa, Hare Kåñëa...
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Chanting Hare Kåñëa is the easiest process by which to
become purified, especially in this age, when people are so dull that they
cannot very easily understand spiritual knowledge. If one chants Hare Kåñëa,
then his intelligence becomes purified, and he can understand spiritual
things.
Mike Robinson: Can you tell
me how you are guided in what you do?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
We take guidance from the Vedic literature.
Mike Robinson: From the scriptures
you quoted?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes, it’s all in the literatures. We’re explaining them in English. But
we’re not manufacturing anything. If we were to manufacture knowledge,
then everything would be spoiled. The Vedic literature is something like
the literature that explains how to set up this microphone. It says, “Do
it like this: some of the screws should be on this side, around the metal.”
You cannot make any change; then everything would be spoiled. Similarly,
because we are not manufacturing anything, one simply has to read one of
our books, and he receives real spiritual knowledge.
Mike Robinson: How can the
philosophy of Kåñëa consciousness affect the way people
live?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
It can relieve people’s suffering. People are suffering because they are
misunderstanding themselves to be the body. If you think that you are your
coat and shirt, and you very carefully wash the coat and shirt but you
forget to eat, will you be happy?
Mike Robinson: No, I wouldn’t.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Similarly, everyone is simply washing the “coat and shirt” of the body,
but forgetting about the soul within the body. They have no information
about what is within the “coat and shirt” of the body. Ask anybody what
he is, and he will say, “Yes, I am an Englishman,” or “I am an Indian.”
And if we say, “I can see you have an English or an Indian body, but what
are you?”—that he cannot say.
Mike Robinson: I see.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The whole modern civilization is operating on the misunderstanding that
the body is the self (dehätma-buddhi). This is the mentality of the
cats and dogs. Suppose I try to enter England, and you stop me at the border:
“I am an Englishman,” you say, “but you are Indian. Why have you come here?”
And the dog barks, “Rau, rau, why are you coming?” So what is the difference
in mentality? The dog is thinking he’s a dog and I’m a stranger, and you
are thinking you are an Englishman and I am an Indian. There’s no difference
in mentality. So if you keep people in the darkness of a dog’s mentality
and declare that you are advancing in civilization, you are most misguided.
Mike Robinson: Now, moving
on to another point, I gather the Hare Kåñëa movement
has some concern for areas of the world where there is suffering.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes, we have the only concern. Others are simply avoiding the main problems:
birth, old age, disease, and death. Others have no solutions to these problems;
they are simply talking all kinds of nonsense. People are being misguided.
They are being kept in darkness. Let us start to give them some light.
Mike Robinson: Yes, but apart
from giving spiritual enlightenment, are you also concerned for people’s
physical well-being?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Physical well-being automatically follows spiritual well-being.
Mike Robinson: And how does
that work?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Suppose you have a car. So, naturally, you take care of the car as well
as yourself. But you don’t identify yourself as the car. You don’t say,
“I am this car.” That is nonsense. But this is what people are doing. They
are taking too much care of the bodily “car,” thinking that the car is
the self. They forget that they are different from the car, that they are
a spirit soul and have a different business. Just as no one can drink petrol
and be satisfied, no one can be satisfied with bodily activities. One must
find out the proper food for the soul. If a man thinks, “I am a car, and
I must drink this petrol,” he is considered insane. Similarly, one who
thinks that he is this body, and who tries to become happy with bodily
pleasures, is also insane.
Mike Robinson: There’s a
quote here that I’d like you to comment on. I was given this literature
by your people before I came, and one of the things you say here is that
“Religion without a rational basis is just sentiment.” Can you explain
that?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Most religious people say, “We believe...” But what is the value of this
belief? You may believe something which is not actually correct. For instance,
some of the Christian people say, “We believe that animals have no soul.”
That is not correct. They believe animals have no soul because they want
to eat the animals, but actually animals do have a soul.
Mike Robinson: How do you
know that the animal has a soul?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
You
can know, also. Here is the scientific proof: the animal eats, you eat;
the animal sleeps, you sleep; the animal has sex, you have sex; the animal
also defends, you also defend. Then what is the difference between you
and the animal? How can you say that you have a soul but the animal doesn’t?
Mike Robinson: I can see
that completely. But the Christian scriptures say...
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Don’t bring in any scriptures; this is a commonsense topic. Try to understand.
The animal is eating, you are eating; the animal is sleeping, you are sleeping;
the animal is defending, you are defending; the animal is having sex, you
are having sex; the animals have children, you have children; they have
a living place, you have a living place. If the animal’s body is cut, there
is blood; if your body is cut, there is blood. So, all these similarities
are there. Now, why do you deny this one similarity, the presence of the
soul? This is not logical. You have studied logic? In logic there is something
called analogy. Analogy means drawing a conclusion by finding many points
of similarity. If there are so many points of similarity between human
beings and animals, why deny one similarity? That is not logic. That is
not science.
Mike Robinson: But if you
take that argument and use it the other way...
Çréla Prabhupäda:
There is no other way. If you are not arguing on the basis of logic, then
you are not rational.
Mike Robinson: Yes, OK, but
let’s start from another hypothesis. Suppose we assume that a human being
has no soul...
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Then you must explain the difference between a living body and a dead body.
I have already explained this at the beginning. As soon as the living force,
the soul, is gone from the body, even the most beautiful body has no value.
No one cares for it; it’s thrown away. But now, if I touch your hair, there
will be a fight. That is the distinction between a living body and a dead
body. In a living body the soul is there, and in a dead body the soul is
not there. As soon as the soul leaves the body, the body has no value.
It is useless. This is very simple to understand, but even the biggest
so-called scientists and philosophers are too dullheaded to understand
it. Modern society is in a very abominable condition. There is no man with
a real brain.
Mike Robinson: Are you referring
to all the scientists who fail to understand the spiritual dimension in
life?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes. Real science means full knowledge of everything, material and spiritual.
Mike Robinson: But you were
a chemist in secular life, were you not?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes, I was a chemist in my earlier life. But it doesn’t require any great
intelligence to become a chemist. Any commonsense man can do it.
Mike Robinson: But presumably
you think that material science is also important, even if today’s scientists
are dullheaded.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Material science is important just so far. It is not all-important.
Mike Robinson: I see. Can
I come back to a question I had from before? When we were differing a few
minutes ago you were saying, “Don’t bring the scriptures in; just use common
sense.” But what part do the scriptures play in your religion? How important
are they?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Our religion is a science. When we say that a child grows into a boy, it
is science. It is not religion. Every child grows into a boy. What is the
question of religion? Every man dies. What is the question of religion?
And when a man dies, the body becomes useless. What is the question of
religion? It is science. Whether you’re Christian or Hindu or Muslim, when
you die your body becomes useless. This is science. When your relative
dies, you cannot say, “We are Christian; we believe he has not died.” No,
he has died. Whether you are Christian or Hindu or Muslim, he has died.
So when we speak, we speak on this basis: that the body is important only
as long as the soul is in the body. When the soul is not there, it is useless.
This science is applicable to everyone, and we are trying to educate people
on this basis.
Mike Robinson: But if I understand
you correctly, you seem to be educating people on a purely scientific basis.
Where does religion come into it at all?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Religion also means science. People have wrongly taken religion to mean
faith—“I believe.” [To a devotee:] Look up the word religion in the dictionary.
Disciple: Under religion
the dictionary says, “recognition of superhuman control or power, and especially
of a personal God entitled to obedience, and effecting such recognition
with the proper mental attitude.”
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Yes. Religion means learning how to obey the supreme controller. So, you
may be Christian and I may be Hindu; it doesn’t matter. We must both accept
that there is a supreme controller. Everyone has to accept that; that is
real religion. Not this “We believe animals have no soul.” That is not
religion. That is most unscientific. Religion means scientific understanding
of the supreme controller: to understand the supreme controller and obey
Him—that’s all. In the state, the good citizen is he who understands the
government and obeys the laws of the government, and the bad citizen is
the one who doesn’t care for the government. So, if you become a bad citizen
by ignoring God’s government, then you are irreligious. And if you are
a good citizen, then you are religious.
Mike Robinson: I see. Can
you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life? Why do we exist
in the first place?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The meaning of life is to enjoy. But now you are on a false platform of
life, and therefore you are suffering instead of enjoying. Everywhere we
see the struggle for existence. Everyone is struggling, but what is their
enjoyment in the end? They are simply suffering and dying. Therefore, although
life means enjoyment, at the present moment your life is not enjoyment.
But if you come to the real, spiritual platform of life, then you’ll enjoy.
Mike Robinson: Can you explain
to me, finally, some of the stages you go through in spiritual life? What
are the spiritual stages a new devotee of Kåñëa goes
through?
Çréla Prabhupäda:
The first stage is that you are inquisitive. “So,” you say, “what is this
Kåñëa consciousness movement? Let me study it.” This
is called çraddhä, or faith. This is the beginning. Then, if
you are serious, you mix with those who are cultivating this knowledge.
You try to understand how they are feeling. Then you’ll feel, “Why not
become one of them?” And when you become one of them, then all your misgivings
soon go away. You become more faithful, and then you get a real taste for
Kåñëa consciousness. Why aren’t these boys going to see
the cinema? Why don’t they eat meat or go to the nightclub? Because their
taste has changed. They hate all these things now. In this way, you make
progress. First faith, then association with devotees, then removal of
all misgivings, then firm faith, then taste, then God realization, and
then love of God, the perfection. That is first-class religion. Not some
ritualistic ceremony of “I believe, you believe.” That is not religion.
That is cheating. Real religion means to develop your love for God. That
is the perfection of religion.
Mike Robinson: Thank you
very much for talking with me. It’s been a pleasure talking to you.
Çréla Prabhupäda:
Hare Kåñëa.
Is there a scientific basis for reincarnation? Indian forensic scientist Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan is trying to prove reincarnation is real. He has presented his findings at the National Conference of Forensic Scientists in India. www.unknowncountry.com
Chauhan has discovered a six-year-old boy named Taranjijt Singh who says he remembers his previous life. According to his parents, he’s been talking about this since he was two years old and used to run away from home. The boy knew the village he lived in during his former life, as well as his and his father’s names. He knew the name of the school he attended as well. On September 10, 1992, he was riding his bike home when he was hit by a motor scooter. He received head injuries and died the next day. His present father, Ranjit Singh, says as the boy became more and more insistent, so he and his wife went to the village where he claimed to have lived in the past. At first, they couldn’t find anyone who resembled the descriptions of his former parents. Then someone told him to go to another nearby village, where they met a teacher at the local school who confirmed the story of the motor scooter accident. They found out where the boy had lived and went there to meet the parents.
When they told the family their story, Ranjit Singh mentioned that his son claimed the books he was carrying when the accident occurred had gotten blood on them. He also described how much money he had in his wallet. When the woman heard this, she began to cry and said she had saved the blood-stain books and the money in memory of her dead child. Taranjit Singh’s parents and siblings from his former life soon came to his new home to meet him. The boy recognized a wedding picture his former parents brought with him.
At first, Vikram Chauhan refused to believe this story but he eventually became curious and decided to investigate. He visited both villages and found the boy and both sets of parents repeated the same story. He spoke to a shopkeeper who told him that the boy had owed him the money that was in his wallet when he was hit, and was probably bringing it to him to pay for a notebook he’d gotten on credit.
Chauhan took samples of both boys’ handwriting and compared them. He found they were identical. It’s a basic tenet of forensic science that no two handwriting styles can be identical, because each person’s handwriting has specific characteristics. Experts can usually spot even expertly forged handwriting. A person’s handwriting style is dictated by individual personality traits. Chauhan’s theory is that if the soul is transferred from one person to another, then the mind – and thus the handwriting - will remain the same. A number of other forensic experts examined the handwriting samples and agreed they were identical.
"I have some scientific basis to claim rebirth is possible", says Chauhan, "but I wish to do more research on the subject and am closely monitoring the development of the child." Singh’s former parents wanted him to move back with them, but his current family still claims him, even though they are poor. Chauhan says, "In his present birth, Taranjit has never gone to school as he belongs to a poor family, but yet when I told him to write the English and Punjabi alphabet, he wrote them correctly."
Taranjijt
Singh - http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2002/10/025.html
http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2003/03/016.html
This controversial statement is backed by thirty five years of research by an engineer who focused on assembling physical evidence to verify Plato's ancient hypothesis by using a scientific approach and the tools furnished by modern technology. It was easy to do and any scientific mind can duplicate my findings, says Joseph R Myers, P.E., a professional engineer with more than 40 years of consulting experience and a W.W.II rank of Joseph R. Myers. P.E.
"The turning point was finding an hypothesis to use to make an investigation that hinged upon finding physical evidence, rather than examining mythology, religious or superstitious beliefs, children's stories or hypnotic trances," according to Myers. The hypothesis requires the coordination and comparison of a vast number of elements, which could not possibly occur by chance or be produced or duplicated fraudulently.
Possibly the most amazing aspect regarding this reincarnation hypothesis is that it dates around four hundred years B.C., and is very specific. However, it could not be demonstrated conclusively until modern technology brought the development of photography and the ability to draw upon centuries of historical data regarding individual lives.
Very Briefly, the hypothesis simply states that the soul-entity
returns in a body similar to its last one and has the same inclinations,
natural abilities and talents. Of course, this means that not uncommonly
outstanding individuals reappear by reincarnation and distinguish themselves
again in the field in which they excel. It is also true that the soul-entity
is inclined to re-associate with family members, friends, and others from
its past. "I am my own grandpa" is not uncommonly true!
Because he believes his findings convey a wonderfully
hopeful understanding of life and provide the incentive on a scientific
basis to practice the Golden Rule, he is dedicated to promoting worldwide
dissemination of his findings. He has lectured and shown slides to many
groups, including universities, clubs, churches, done nationally syndicated
TV and radio programs and newspaper interviews for which he often furnishes
pictures and handwriting samples of a few case studies. He has the background
to do an excellent interview and respond to diverse questions.
See the website http://www.reincarnation2002.com for more details.
"We were in being long before the foundation of the world;
we existed in the eye of God, for it is our destiny to live in Him. We
are reasonable creatures of the Divine Word; therefore, we have existed
from the beginning, for in the beginning was the word."
St. Clement of Alexandria - (150 - 220 A.D.)
"... it is absolutely necessary that the soul should be
healed and purified, and if this does not take place during its life on
earth, it must be accomplished in future lives."
St. Gregory - (257 - 332 A.D.)
"The message of Plato, the purest and the most luminous
of all philosophy, has at last scattered the darkness of error, and now
shines forth mainly in Plotinus, a Platonist so like his master that one
would think they lived together, or rather, since so long a period of time
separates them - that Plato was born again in Plotinus."
St. Augustine - (354 - 430 CE.
St. Jerome, "the transmigrations (reincarnation) of souls
was taught for a long time among the early Christians as an esoteric and
traditional doctrine which was to be divulged to only a small number of
the elect." The elect included some of the early Church Fathers.
"I can well imagine that I might have lived in former
centuries ... that I had to be born again because I had not fulfilled the
task Memories, Dreams and Reflections given to me."
Carl Jung (Psychologist)
"I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six
..... it was as if I had found a universal plan."
Henry Ford (Car manufacturer)
San Francisco Examine Aug. 26 1928
"I am not only a mystic. I am also the reincarnation of
one of the greatest of all Spanish mystics, St John of the Cross. I can
remember vividly experiencing divine union, undergoing the dark night of
the Soul ... I can remember the monastery and many of St John's fellow
monks!"
Salvador Dali (Painter)
New York Herald Tribune Jan. 24 1960
"The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing,
etc., nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years.
My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated."
David Lloyd George (British Prime Minister)
Lord Riddel's Intimate Diary
"I find myself in some scene which I cannot have visited
before and which is yet perfectly familiar: I know that it was the stage
of an action in which [ once took part and am about to take part again."
John Buchan (Novelist)
Memory Hold-the-Door
"They will come back--come back again--as long as the
red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would
squander souls?"
Rudyard Kipling (Poet)
The Sack of the Gods
"The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer (like the cover
of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and
gilding) lies here, food for worms: but the work shall not be lost, it
will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition
.... revised and corrected by the author."
Benjamin Franklin (American Statesman)
Ep
Four-year-old recalls previous
life!
By SP Singh in Ghaziabad
Friday, 01 August , 2003, 04:44
http://sify.com/news/offbeat/fullstory.php?id=13214297
Believe it or not, a four year old child has fuelled discussion on re-birth. Aishwary resident of Chandner village in Ghaziabad not only remembers his previous birth but also went to the place where he actually lived with his wife and children. They were too happy to receive their father, even though, he happened to be a four year old child.
Aishwary has become cynosure of all eyes in Chandner. The re-birth story has been attracting curious visitors. Aishwary was born on January 26, 1999 in the family of one Mukesh Chauhan, a resident of village Chandner in Ghaziabad.
One day, the child told his father that he was an electrician and his name was Vir Pal. His father's name was Mathan Singh and mother was Chandrawati. They were residents of Kamalpur of Bulandshahr district. He had two brothers and two sisters. He was married to Rani. He had three children. He used to live in Sohna road, Faridabad. He used to work at Vinayak factory at Ballabgarh. He died of electrocution while working on July 27, 1997.
His family initially took his utterings casually. But after the repeated narration of his previous birth, his father informed the villagers of Kamalpur and asked them to verify the facts. As the villagers came, the child reportedly recognised them and discussed his previous birth in detail.The villagers endorsed his claim and told the child's family that his previous father Mathan Singh, now resides in DM colony, Bulandshahr. The present father of the child Aishwary took him to Kamalpur where the locals warmly greeted him. He recognised his uncle, aunt and his old friends.
The child also recognised his previous parents, brothers and sisters. Aishwary asked about his wife and children. The family took him to Faridabad where he met his wife and children.
Courtesy of http://www.HinduismToday.com/
There's another true story available on vidoe at United
Videos and probably other video stres called "Manika Manika the girl who
lived twice."
Manika
Manika - the girl who lived twice - the movie intro by New York Times
Another quite famed true story is that of Audrey Rose,
both should be available to hire out.
Reviews call it Science Fiction, Fantasy Horror, the thinking man's
horror movie etc.
For some interesting articles on factual incidences of recorded reincarnation
Coming Back, (view it on-line) is a small book that overviews the entire scenario of life after death, reincarnation, etc., A Second Chance, is a book compiled from the section of the scripture Srimad Bhagavatam that describes the pasing away of Ajamile, his attachments, and final release.
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Vegetarianism and Beyond:
Darwin's Evolution Theory pages
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in the Vishnu Purana By Rudi Jansma
Tom Leppard - Leopard man shuns society for hut on Isle
of Skye:
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Tiger man' wants fur graft - A San Diego computer programmer
who has spent £100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself
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