Reincarnation & material evidence

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Jai Sriman Narayana:

 

I picked this one up from http://science.krishna.org/Articles/2005/02/Reincarnation.html.

 

Case of Nagina: Nagina was born in October 1990 in a town in District Farrukhabad, U.P. Her father, Amaruddin, was a Tonga driver. The family belonged to the sect of Sunni Moslems who did not believe in reincarnation. They were the members of the middle lower socioeconomic class. When Nagina was a little over one year old and before she had acquired speech, she used to try to convey something through gestures. She would make a gesture of striking a match and pointing it to her head. This behaviour started when one of Amaruddin's aunts, who was visiting them, asked for some oil to massage her head. Nagina brought a bottle with kerosene in it. The aunt said with surprise that she had asked for mustard oil and asked what she would do with kerosene. Nagina then showed her, through the gesture, how she (in the previous life) had poured kerosene on her head and set herself on fire by lighting a match. About the age of three, when Nagina could spoke clearly, she gave more details about a previous life. She said that she was Oma, a teacher, and that she had two dauthers and two sons. Her statements also included the details of how she had a quarrel with her husband and set herself on fire after dowsing herself in kerosene.

 

A women called Oma devi lived a few yards away from the house of Amaruddin. She was married and had four children: two dauthers and two sons. She was a teacher in a school in District Etah, and her husband sold books and stationary in Mohammadabad. The couple did not get along well. On May 19, 1987 they had a serious quarrel; Oma Devi dowsed herself with kerosene and immolated herself. Her body was charred completely; she was 47 at the time. On hearing about Nagina's claims Oma Devi's sons called her to their home. Oma Devi's younger son expressed reservations about the case but did not deny it completely. Her older son was convinced that Nagina was his mother reborn. His conviction derived from Nagina's behaviour and her knowledge of certain events in Oma Devi's life that he believed were not known to outsiders.

 

Nagina's Unusual Behaviour: Nagina showed behaviour, which refelected her preoccupation with the mode of death in her claimed previous life. She also showed appropriate behaviour towards Oma Devi's sons and gave information that was not in the public domain. When Oma Devi's husband died in April 1996, Nagina became very upset (she was about 5 1/2 years old at that time.)

 

Nagina's Birthmarks: Nagina's parents, and also some other informants, noticed marks suggestive of burns on her body when she was born. On examination in December 1995, two marks were clearly seen on her body. These were hypopigmented areas under Nagina's chin and on her lower abdomen.

 

Birth marks are on the body which is material but what reincarnated is the soul. The logical explanation is that the soul gets the type of body that it was destined to get based on its past action even to the minutest detail (burn injuries of past life - now thats cool /images/graemlins/cool.gif)

 

Any thoughts?