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ced nedtum, But Dr Broad's conception of the persistence of the psychic factor does not explain the idea of rebirth
1 Apart from the investigations of the modern psychical research and ils ir plications on the problem of rebirth, we have evidence to show that in some cases there is no los, 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 carly cars of bis succeeding lifc For example, Sadguru Kesbavadas reported to me two cases of the revival of menory of the past life
0) 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 ut Kanchipuram He claims to say that lie was a priest 10 his past life
(11) Sadguru Keshavadasji says "while I was delivering a discourse at New York Indian Consulate on Indlan Philosophy, a Negro gentleman got up and began recting "Lalita Sahasranama'' and he said that he was born in India in his past Life 91
There is a famous case of reincarnation of Shanti Devi recently investigated to Delbi 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 Matburt. She gave the name of her husband as Kedar Nath Chaubay A Committee of experts was appointed to study the case, and, strangely enough, tbc details of the narration of the girl came out to be true For instance, she bad told that she had kept some money hidden underground in a certain room of her house at Mathura, and that came out to be true She wts taken to Mathura and she could recognise every corner of the place that sbe llved 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 waa CORYIDCd of the roports glven by her
Dr. H N Banerjee has been doing some work in this direction and bla results have been usefol.
8 The sages in Ancient India were reported to be capable of describing the previous births of others The Buddha enumerated the previous Hfe forms of persons closely connected with him He was also in a position
31 A personal discussion with Sadguru Leshavadasi, Disarama, Bangalore 32. Kuran Shanti Devi A Case of Re-incarnation, (Adarsha Sudharak Subha,
Delhi, 1953.)
