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Annexures
1. A new born baby, immediately after birth, starts sucking milk from the mother's breast without being taught about it. This happens due to the acquired knowledge/habit from previous lives.
2. Living beings are able to pronounce letters signifying different feelings depending on varying requirements. Nonliving objects cannot pronounce such words conveying
feelings.
3. Living beings take birth and die. This is a common experience. If there is no permanent/stable/lasting substance, then who takes birth and who dies? The consciousness that takes birth is it different from the one that dies? Whether the former has withered and from where the latter emerges or goes?
4. Some may argue that consciousness is a part of the body itself. If so, then why do we find inconsistencies between the two? When consciousness’wants certain actions, the body may or may not fulfil the same. For example, we may want to bend our knee or hand on reverse direction but the body will not cooperate. Thus, the two entities are different.
5. Although various living beings have differences in bodies, shapes, dimensions, appearance, etc., certain characteristics are common to all Jivas, such as feeling of hunger, fear, sex, happiness, sorrow, etc., and degree of these feelings vary in all depending on external conditions. This shows that the soul exists.
6. After death, some beings become ghosts, spirits, etc., and later tell their relatives, sons, daughters, parents, etc., about their previous lives. Similarly, some children are able to reveal about their erstwhile lives and when the details are verified, these come to be true.
