average time for rebirth? 15 months, says expert

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The average time for rebirth? 15 months, says expert

Friday January 28 2005 09:00 IST

 

BANGALORE: CASE 1: A vague memory hit a pair of twins in Agra,

Surender and Narendar, while travelling on a bike. The older one was

the first to spell it out. They had died in a road accident in their

previous birth.

 

They went back and told their parents but were silenced. The duo,

desperate to meet parents and relatives of their previous birth, spoke

about it to their milkman, who hailed from the village where they

lived in their previous birth. They milkman takes their message to the

village teacher. The teacher visited them and at once she was

convinced and arranged for the two families to meet.

 

CASE 2: A man was shot dead in a police cross fire. Fifteen months

later, a child is born with marks on his chest. When he began to

speak, he said he was shot dead in the previous birth.

 

The cases were verified and the documents like the death certificate,

FIRs from various Government agencies stand testimony to their cases,

claimed Satwant K. Pasricha, head of clinical psychology, National

Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS).

 

She was presenting scientific evidences of reincarnation from an

ongoing study NIMHANS had been doing for the last two decades along

with the University of Virginia. The two centres had interviewed and

documented at least 2,500 children, who were referred to them ``with

memories of previous births.''

 

The research team, she claims, has substantial evidences in at least

67 per cent of the samples. Most children, she said, forget about the

past by age of 10 and become normal adults. The average time between

death and birth was 15 months. At least 51 per cent of the reported

cases either died of accidents or were murdered.

 

But the public lecture had more questions than answers. Pasricha is

yet to find out why only some children remember their previous birth.

Is it always from one human being to another or is also from animals?

Why do the children forget the incidents by the time they are ten? How

are the dead ones reborn? Do they travel through light? Are they waves?

 

``We are in the advanced stages of confirming reincarnation. We don't

know answers to any of these questions. All we can say now is

reincarnation looks possible,'' said Pasricha, while answering to

queries from the audience.

 

The research, she said, was not to dispute to genetic theory but only

to supplement it. ``It will take a long time for us establish this as

we need data and evidence from several other children. But we are

hopeful we would,'' she said signing off.

 

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