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ced medium. But Dr. Broad's conception of the persistence of the psychic factor does not explain the idea of rebirth.
7. Apart from the investigations of the modern psychical research and its implications on the problem of rebirth, we have evidence to show that in some cases there is no loss of memory of the past life. We have instances to show where a person remembers the incidents of his past life at least during the early years of his succeeding life. For example, Sadguru Keshavadas ji reported to me two cases of the revival of memory of the past
life.
(1) Dr. Gastone, an Italian Dentist used to dream that he was a priest in India. He could fully visualise the procedure of worship in the temple in India. When he came to India recently he remembered his past in a tample at Kanchipuram. He claims to say that he was a priest in his past life.
(ii) Sadguru Keshavsdas ji says "while I was delivering a discourse at New York Indian Consulate on Indian Philosophy, a Negro gentleman got up and began reciting "Lalita Sahasranama" and he said that he was born. in India in his past Life."
There is a famous case of reincarnation of Shanti Devi recently investigated in Delhi. Kumari Shanti Devi is a Lecturer in Hindu Philosophy at Delhi, In her young age she suddenly became depressed and began to say that she belonged to Mathura and her husband was a merchant at Mathura. She gave the name of her husband as Kedar Nath Chaubey. A Committee of experts was appointed to study the case, and, strangely enough, the details of the narration of the girl came out to be true. For instance, she had told that she had kept some money hidden money hidden underground in a certain room of her house at Mathura, and that came out to be true. She was taken to Mathura and she could recognise every corner of the place. that she lived and moved. She recognised with affection her husband and her son in the past life. I had the privilege of meeting this lady at Lucknow during a seminar on parapsychological phenomena and I was convinced of the reports given by her.
Dr. H.N. Banerjee has been doing some work in this direction and his results have been useful.
8. The sages in sages in Ancient India were reported to be capable of describing the previous births of others The Buddha enumerated the previous life forms of persons closely connected with him. He was also in a position
31. A personal discussion with Sadguru Keshavadasji, Dasairama, Bangalore Case of Re-incarnation, (Adarsha Sudharak Subha,
32. Kumari Shanti Devi: A Delhi, 1953.)
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