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REINCARNATION
47 her husband and her son immediately, and recalled many incidents of her former life which convinced the Pundit as to the source of her memories. She cried bitterly when she found that she could not resume her place as “mother" of her own son, who was now four years older than herself, and that she could not leave the house of her present parents.
The news of this occurrence spread rapidly in Delhi, and the neighbourhood, as the Pundit, his son, and his second wife stayed at Delhi for several weeks to bear witness to this extraordinary case.
The house of Rang Bahadur at Chirakhana became a place of pilgrimage, as numbers of people wanted to talk to the little girl who was thus able to prove to nearly all the inhabitants of Delhi the truth of her reincarnation. The English spiritualists in India, in attempting to find a way out of accepting the theory of reincarnation, suggest that the little girl is an unconscious medium en rapport with the discarnate spirit of the Pundit's first wife. This theory is not altogether satisfactory, because there is no indication that Shanto Kumari shows any indication of mediumistic power, nor is subject to trance, or possession. For the present, it would seem that the only explanation of the
