Science Discovers Eternal Wisdom

Author(s): Amarendravijay, J D Lodaya, Bhuvanchandra
Publisher: Jain Sahitya Academy

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parents' place at that time, came back to her in-laws' house on hearing about Munesh. Munesh easily picked her out from a group of her friends and could narrate some intimate details of events from their marital life which convinced Ayodhyadevi (Bhajansingh's widow) that she had indeed met her late husband in the person of Munesh.
The daughter of Mr. C.L. Sharma and Mayadevi used to recite obscure scriptural verses with perfect accent and ease at the age of only two and a half years. She gave public demonstration of her unusual talent at a function attended by no less a personality that the governor of U.P., the chief justice of Rajasthan and the vice-chancellor of Rajasthan university along with many well-known figures and received high praise from all for her clarity of diction and miraculous memory.
It should be emphasised here that in this kind of research work regarding rebirth phenomenon, evidence is scrutinised by a carefully conducted on-the-spot investigation with meticulousness of a judicial inquiry and only those cases which pass muster through such strict cross-checking are included in the study and are accepted as genuine 'rebirth' cases. This is well borne out on going through the various monographs entitled 'Munesh', 'Prabhu' etc. published by Jaipur university.
Like Dr. Banerji, Dr. Ian Stevenson from the department of Parapsychology, Virginia university, USA is also doing research in rebirth phenomenon. He has a collection of twelve hundred cases wherein there is inkling of rebirth. Out of these, more than two hundred have been scrutinised by him or his colleagues personally. Full reports of selected cases with details of on-the-spot investigations of the evidence and thorough cross-checking of witnesses have been published as sizeable volumes by university press of Virginia. This would form quite convincing evidence. Reviewing these volumes, American Medical Association Journal has thus opined, " the evidence is difficult to explain on any other grounds.... '
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