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the day. Next day, when the issue was brought up, his father scolded him and ordered him to put the coat on, but young Albert refused to oblige. So, changing the pitch of his talk, his father cajoled him, "Well, why do you act stubborn ? Be a good boy and put it on ; do you know how hard your mother has worked in preparing it ? At least, to please her, you should wear it." But Albert could not comply with this request because his innocent mind could not reconcile with the idea of accepting preferential treatment reserved for the privileged few like himself and denied to his other fellow beings. Infuriated by such adamant attitude, his father pushing him out of the house, threatened, "Until you give up your obstinacy, keep out of the house". And poor Albert sat kneeling and crying outside. In earnestly practising the preaching of Christ - love thy neighbour as thyself - young Schweitzer outdid his father, an ordained priest.
Repercussions of acts of previous births :
From many examples of precocious spiritual development, intellectual excellence or artistic achievement in the field of poetry, music, dance etc. at a young age, the fact emerges that qualities developed and merits achieved by an individual in the previous life, continue to manifest in his ensuing births. Henry Ford has been reported to have said that, "Discovery of rebirth has cleared my doubts ;I can now let my mind rest easy. I felt that life, after all, had some sensible scheme or purposeful plan evolved around a definite goal and did proceed along a predetermined pattern. Having realised this truth, I have given up my futile search for an answer to the riddle of life."
An American boy named G.P. Bidder, became a master mathematician at the age of four and could solve complex sums involving strings of numbers at the speed of a computer.
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