http://www.bagchee.com/books.php?id=44779Can the Mind Survive beyond Death?
Swarnlata, the four year old daughter of a Brahmin Vaid living in the Mainpuri, U.P. district stated to her family that she had been one Shanti, a sweepress in her previous life. She said that she used to collect coals from the railway tracks. One day a train had run over her and killed her. She had the, she said, followed her (present) father home from the railway tracks where he used to exercise and had been born in his home.
Swarnlata stated a number of other details about the previous life she claimed to remember. Investigation showed that a sweepress by the name of Shanti had lived at the places mentioned by Swarnlata and had died when, as she was crawling under a train to look for coals, it had been unexpectedly shunted and she was run over. Swarnlata exhibited in her behavior some of the habits of a sweeperess such as s desire to eat pork; her family had great difficulty in keeping her clean. The sweepress, Shanti, had lived in Mainpuri, but the two families concerned had not known each other.
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Pushpa, a Hindu girl (living in Delhi), of about three years of age, began to tell her family that she had been a woman called Mandeep who had been married to a man who worked with bicycles, presumably running some kid of bicycle repair shop. She said that at the instigation of her (previous) mother-in-law her husband had killed her by stabbing her in the abdomen. The family she claimed to remember were Sikhs.
Pushpa stated numerous details, included the proper names of members of the family she claimed to remember. Upon investigation it was found that a Sikh man, living about 300 meters from Pushpa’s family had killed his wife by stabbing her in the abdomen. Nearly all the details stated by Pushpa proved to be correct with regard to the murdered woman. Careful inquiry showed that the two families concerned had had no contact before the development of the case.
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…..“In an effort to contribute to the understanding of origin of birthmarks and birth defects from the perspective of reincarnation, cases of children with memories of previous life and congenital anomalies were investigated in India and reports of ten such cases are presented. The birthmarks or birth defects were carefully examined. Their correspondence with the supposedly matching wounds on the concerned deceased person was
independently verified; mostly from the medical records. Two subjects had major birth defects. One was born without his right hand and right forearm; another had a severe malformation of the spine (kyphosis) and prominent birthmark on the head. The remaining eight subjects had birthmarks corresponding to gunshot wounds, knife wounds, burns, and injuries in a vehicular accident. The birthmarks and birth defects closely corresponded to the injuries of the concerned deceased persons.
The interpretations of chance, maternal impressions, super-psi, possession, and reincarnation were considered to explain the birthmarks and birth defects. The hypothesis of reincarnation seems best to explain all features of cases.’