Reincarnation - Real tales

You have seen in many movies that hero dies and somewhere else he is reincarnated  . For e.g Rishi kapoor's karz movie, Shahrukh's Om shanti om and  Nicole kidman's Birth movie. We have so many examples . But today i will tell you guys some real stories of reincarnation from all over the world . I have uploaded the available images of those personalities along with the narratives. Though all the images were not available .

STORY OF NIRMAL WHO WAS BORN AS PARKASH
Back in the 1950s, the cure for smallpox was not available and in the remote villages in India, medication was scarce and so was its knowledge. In the Kosikala village, Nirmal as a young boy, son of Bholenath Jain died of smallpox. A year later in 1951, a son was born to B L Washarney in Chhata Village and was named Prakash.
Now little baby Prakash or his parents had no connection with Kosikala village nor did they know Bholenath Jain. But when Prakash grew up to be four and half, he started remembering his past life and started to say that he actually is from Kosikala village and that his father is Bholenath Jain. He wanted to go back to his old house. No one paid any heed to the baby.
A couple of years later, Prakash's uncle took him to Kosikala to prove that there was no connection but when he returned to his own village the boy started to remember a lot of things. However, they could not meet Bholenath Jain. This irked his current parents and they tried to put all this behind them. But in 1961, Bholenath Jain travelled to Chhata village and heard of the boy named Prakash. When he visited the Washarney family, Prakash recognised him as his father and shared many incidents.

GEETA'S REINCARNATION AS RAJUL
Little Rajul was born to Pravin Chandra in 1960. At three, she started narrating incidents that seemed weird to her family and it was said that maybe she remembered details of her past life. In her past life, Rajul claimed she lived in Junagarh district and was known by the name of Geeta. Her family continued to ignore her. But her grandfather Vajubhai Shah decided to investigate the matter.
In his investigation, Shah found out that indeed in Junagarh, Gokul Das Thakkar had lost his daughter Geeta in 1959. This Geeta was only 2 and a half years old when she died. The grandfather then went to meet Gokul Das Thakkar with Rajul. Rajul recognised her previous birth parents and also the temple where her previous birth mother would take her.

WORLDWAR I VETERAN
Can a four-year-old boy be the reincarnation of a World War I veteran? But Patricia Austrian found this to be true in a weird way. Her four-year-old son, Edward used to be wary of grey, gloomy days and often complained of sore throat on such days. He used to sa
y that his shot was hurting and narrated detailed tales about his previous life. He was apparently shot and killed in the war.
Doctors who treated his throat were equally baffled. They removed his tonsils as a precaution. However, on doing so a cyst developed in his throat and there was no way it could be treated. But when Edward started telling his parents more about his past life on how he was killed, the cyst disappeared.
BOY AS HIS OWN GRANDPA

Augie & Gus

18-month-old Gus Taylor’s grandfather, Augie, had died a year before Gus was born. However, according to Listverse, the year-and-a-half-old Gus claimed that he was his own grandfather. When he was four, he was
able to identify Augie in family photographs, even though he had never seen the man in real life.
That might not sound like much, but it gets weirder; years before, Augie’s sister was murdered and her body was dumped in San Francisco Bay. No one in the family had ever spoken of this to Gus, and consequently, everyone was shocked when Gus started talking about his dead sister.

PAST LIFE AS A FIGHTER PILOT

8-year-old James Leininger of Louisiana began talking about aviation at 2 years old. His parents reportedly knew nothing about the subject, and were amazed when their little boy started displaying

James

such an extensive knowledge of planes.
Their amazement turned to alarm when James started having nightmares about being shot down by a plane with a red sun on it — a Japanese plane. He talked about having dreams and memories of being Lieutenant James McCready Huston, a World War II fighter pilot from Pennsylvania who had been killed in Iwo Jima more than 50 years earlier. Andrea, his mother, said that James would scream at the top of his voice, ‘Airplane crash, on fire, can’t get out, help,’ as he kicked and pointed to the ceiling.
Later, James told his parents that he had flown a plane called the Corsair from a boat called the Natoma. When James’s father decided to do some research, he discovered that there had been a small escort carrier called the Natoma Bay, which had been in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and that there really had been a pilot called James Huston. His plane was hit in the engine by Japanese fire on March 3, 1945. According to Jim Tucker, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, Huston’s plane crashed exactly the way that young James Leininger had described.

THE FAMOUS CASE OF SHANTI DEVI 
Shanti Devi, a girl growing up in Delhi in the 1930s, spoke very little until she was four years old. When she did start talking, she alarmed everyone in her family. "This is not my real home! I have a husband and a son in Mathura! I must return to them!"

This was India, so instead of taking their daughter to a psychiatrist for a dose of Ritalin, her parents told her, "That was then. This is now. Forget your past life. You're with us this time."
But Shanti Devi wouldn't give up. She talked about her former family to anyone who would listen. One of her teachers at school sent a letter to the address Shanti Devi gave as her "real home" in Mathura, inquiring if a woman who had died there not too many years ago. To his astonishment, he soon received a reply from Shanti Devi's previous husband, admitting that his young wife Lugdi Devi had passed away some years previously, after giving birth to their son. The details Shanti Devi had given about her old house and members of her previous family were all confirmed.

Shanti devi

This launched the most thoroughly researched investigation of a case of reincarnation in modern history. Everyone got in on the act, including Mahatma Gandhi and several prominent Indian members of the Indian government. A team of researchers, working under stringent conditions to ensure that Shanti Devi couldn't possibly be getting her information from any other source, accompanied the little girl to Mathura. On her own, she was able to lead them to her previous home, and correctly described what it had looked like years earlier before its recent refurbishing. She was also able to relate extremely intimate information, such as extramarital affairs of family members, that no one outside the family could possibly have known.
The publication of the committee’s report attracted worldwide attention. Many learned personalities, including saints, parapsychologists, and philosophers came to study the case, some in support and some as critics trying to prove it a hoax.

The award-winning Swedish journalist Sture Lonnerstrand spent several weeks with Shanti Devi later in her life, recording her story and verifying information about the famous government investigation.


So guys this is it for today . I will come up with few more stories in my next post. Till then take care and do comment if you want to write me on some other topic too.

Reincarnation : The Mystery

Hello everyone , i hope you liked my earlier blog on time traveling and teleportation . Today, i am here with another interesting subject i.e REINCARNATION .  In our Hindu religion it is called PUNARJANAM (REBIRTH) . Many cultures have myths and legends that tell of heroes or other characters who die and then come back to life. When they reappear, though, it is not as their former selves but as other people, as animals, or even as plants. The concept of reincarnation—a reappearance of a spirit or soul in earthly form—is based on the belief that a person's soul continues to exist after death and can transmigrate, or move, to another living thing.

It is a natural and universal human characteristic to wonder what, if anything, lies beyond the grave. Moreover, it is human to ponder upon whether death is the end of existence or an entry into eternity, or merely an intermission between earthly lives. Herein lays the seeming dichotomy between Eastern and Western approaches to earthly existence. That is, either the belief in or the rejection of the Idea of Reincarnation; the Idea of Rebirth sometimes called the Transmigration of Souls.

Beliefs according to different religions

Belief in reincarnation has been shared by a wide variety of peoples, including the ancient Egyptians and Greeks and the Aboriginal people of central Australia. The most complex and influential ideas about reincarnation are found in Asian religions, particularly Hinduism and Budhism.

The idea that the soul reincarnates in many different bodies is a great comfort to many people. Reincarnation offers hope such that if one does not get it right in this life one has another chance in a future life to make amends.
Cultural groups that believe in reincarnation have different ideas about the way it takes place. Some say that human souls come from a general source of life-giving energy. Others claim that particular individuals are repeatedly reborn or come back to life in their descendants.

In Australia, most Aborigines believe that human souls come from spirits left behind by ancestral beings who roamed the earth during a mythical period called Dreamtime. The birth of a child is caused by an ancestral spirit entering a woman's body. The spirit waits in a sacred place for the woman to pass by. After death, the person's spirit returns to the ancestral powers.

According to traditional African belief, the souls or spirits of recently dead people linger near the grave for a time, seeking other bodies—reptile, mammal, bird, or human—to inhabit. Many African traditions link reincarnation to the worship of ancestors, who may be reborn as their own descendants or as animals associated with their clans or groups. The Zulu people of southern Africa believe that a person's soul is reborn many times in the bodies of different animals, ranging in size from tiny insects to large elephants, before being born as a human again. The Yoruba and Edo of western Africa share the widely held notion that people are the reincarnations of their ancestors. They call boys "Father Has Returned" and girls "Mother Has Returned."

Reincarnation plays a central role in Buddhism and Hinduism. It also appears in Jainism and Sikhism, two faiths that grew out of Hinduism and are still practiced in India. Jainism shares with Hinduism a belief in many gods. Sikhism, a monotheistic religion, combines some elements of Islam with Hinduism.Hindus believe that one of their most powerful god, Lord Vishnu had many incarnation to save the earth.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism all began in India, where the idea of rebirth first appears in texts dating from about 700 B.C. They share a belief in samsara—the wheel of birth and rebirth—and karma—the idea that an individual's future incarnation depends on the way he or she lived. People who have done good deeds and led moral lives are reborn into higher social classes; those who have not are doomed to return as members of the lower classes or as animals. Only by achieving the highest state of spiritual development can a person escape samsara altogether

In the Bhagavad Gita, which is a part of the Mahabharata, reincarnation is clearly stated as a natural process of life that has to be followed by any mortal. Krishna says:

Just as the self advances through childhood, youth and old age in its physical body, so it advances to another body after death. The wise person is not confused by this change called death (2,13). Just as the body casts off worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so the infinite, immortal self casts off worn out bodies and enters into new ones (2,22).

In the Puranas the speculation on this subject is more substantial and therefore specific destinies are figured for each kind of sin one performs: "The murderer of a Brahmin becomes consumptive, the killer of a cow becomes hump-backed and imbecile, the murderer of a virgin becomes leprous, all three born as outcastes. The slayer of a woman and the destroyer of embryos becomes a savage full of diseases; who commits illicit intercourse, a eunuch; who goes with his teacher's wife, disease-skinned. The eater of flesh becomes very red; the drinker of intoxicants, one with discolored teeth.... Who steals food becomes a rat; who steals grain becomes a locust... perfumes, a muskrat; honey, a gadfly; flesh, a vulture; and salt, an ant.... Who commits unnatural vice becomes a village pig; who consorts with a Sudra woman becomes a bull; who is

Punishments according to Garuda Puran

passionate becomes a lustful horse.... These and other signs and births are seen to be the karma of the embodied, made by themselves in this world. Thus the makers of bad karma, having experienced the tortures of hell, are reborn with the residues of their sins, in these stated forms (Garuda Purana 5)."


The belief in karma and reincarnation brings to each Hindu inner peace and self-assurance. The Hindu knows that the maturing of the soul takes many lives, and that if the soul is immature in the present birth, then there is hope, for there will be many opportunities for learning and growing in future lives.

In my next post i will come up with a few real incidents of REBIRTH. Till then take care and enjoy this post.