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to his cabin, and said: Steward, you are the victim of a remarkable coincidence or something far
stranger.
Then he showed me a human head taken by him from the head-hunters of Amazon,
reduced by a secret process to half of its normal size and preserved. I shuddered. I know I was
looking at an exact counterpart of my own face.
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Bajitpur Postal Clerk s Son (Advance 15 Jul. 1936) a three year-old son of a postal clerk
of Bajitpur (Faridpur) began to cry one day and insisted on going to his own home. In reply to a
question, he said:
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I am an inhabitant of Fazilpur in Chittagong. From Luxum Railway Station a road leads to
my village. I have three sons and four daughters there. The Kalibari of Meher is not very far off
from my residence. It is at the Meher Kalibari that Sarvananda realised salvation. There is no image
of Kali. There is a big banyan tree and worship is held at its root.
There is also a very tall palm tree. The father of the boy had never been to Chittagong or
Luxum station or to Meher Kalibari. The boy sometimes sings songs which he had never heard.
* * *
A Hungarian girl forgets her parents in 1933, a 15-year-old Hungarian daughter of an
engineer lay on her death-bed at Budapest. Apparently she died, but recovered a little later, forgot
her native Hungarian language completely and began to speak Spanish only. She could not
recognise even her parents whom she referred to as: These nice people here are very kind to me,
but they are not my parents as they pretend to be. To a Spanish interpreter, she said: I am Senore
Lucid Attarezde Salvio. I was the wife of a working man in Madrid and had 14 children. I was 40
years old and rather sick. A few years ago I died, at least thought I was dying. Now I have recovered
in this strange country.
She is singing Spanish songs, preparing special Spanish food and giving graphic
descriptions of Madrid where she has never been.
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Jung Bahadur s daughter (Delhi) Shanta, an 8-year old girl of Lala Jung Bahadur, a
merchant of Delhi, used to say, ever since she could talk that in her former life she was married to
a man of Mathura whose address she gave. When her former husband was informed of it, he sent his
brother whom the girl identified instantly. Then her husband came and she recognised him at once,
and told him facts which were known only to him and his former wife. She also told him that she
had buried one hundred rupees at a certain place in her home.
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Devi Prasad s child, Kanpur (Amrita Bazar Patrika 1 May 1938) A five-year-old child of
one Devi Prasad Bhatnagar, living in Premnagar, Kanpur, says that in his previous birth his name
was Sivadayal Muktas and that he had been murdered during the Kanpur riots in 1931 when he was
decoyed by two Muslim friends to a house and there murdered. One day the child insisted on going
to his old house where he said his former wife was lying ill. He was taken there and he at once
recognised his wife, his children and other articles.
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Recites the Gita at one year and a half correspondent from Prayagraj reports (A.B.
Patrika):
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A three-year-old boy at Jhansi can reproduce from memory the whole Srimad
Bhagavadgita and Ramayana and his pronunciation is perfect. The boy was trying in vain to speak
something since he attained the age of 5 months and at the age of one year and a half he recited to his
hearers the Gita, etc.
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A five-year-old child and Piano (People 20 Jun. 1937) A five-year-old Blackpool child
would rather play the Piano than play with a doll. She has never had a lesson, yet she plays
brilliantly. She can play in perfect tune any melody she hears and she adds a tune or two of her own
composition.
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Barrister s daughter (Calcutta) The daughter of a barrister of the Calcutta High Court,
when only 3 year old, could clean the house floors excellently. On being asked she said:
I used to clean the floors in my father-in-law s house in Beldanga where only myself, my
father-in-law and one of his daughters lived. I used to perform Puja and cook Thakurji s Bhog.
There was a Dole Mancha in my father-in-law s house. On the Dole Yatra Day we used to put
Thakurji on a swing and smear him profusely with Avir.
The child lives in strict Achara and does not eat or sleep with her parents who are anglicised
and therefore untouchables. Her food is separately cooked.
These facts can be easily verified even now.
With strongest ties to the earth, with desires and affections hovering over earthly scenes, the
generality of persons are reborn on earth, immediately after death. They do not sojourn in other
planes of existence. Some of them, as it does happen, though rarely, remember their immediate past
incarnation. Here are two from the many cases published in the Fate magazine, in the year 1954.
Anne, aged four, said to her father: Daddy, I have been here on earth lots of times.
When he laughed, Anne became indignant. I was! I was! I was! she cried, stamping her
foot, Once I went to Canada as a man. I remember my name even. It was Lishus Faber. I was a
soldier and I took the gates!
After months of research, a historian found the evidence of a battle in Canada in which a
single soldier had taken the gates as Anne had said.
The name of the lieutenant was Aloysius La-Febre Lishus Faber as pronounced by Anne.
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Visvanath, born in Bareilly, began at the age of three to give minute details of a previous life
in a town called Pilibhit. His parents, fearing that this meant he was going to die young did their best
to conceal their son s story.
The boy named the school to which he had gone in Pilibhit in his previous existence and said
they had a neighbour named Lala Sunder Lal who had a green gate, a sword and he described the
parties which this wealthy man had given.
To test him the boy was taken to this distant town, which he had never visited before in his
present life. Here he correctly pointed out various parts of his original home, now in ruins, including
a hidden stairway. Shown a group photograph, he correctly pointed out a man as his former uncle,
Har Narain, and finally pointed to himself a boy sitting amidst the group.
Every detail was found to be correct. His own identity was established as Laxmi Narain,
who had died of tuberculosis at the age of 32.
Laxmi Narain s mother was still living. She asked little Visvanath numerous questions to
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