Forensic Evidence of Reincarnation
November 11, 2002 by www-unknowncountry-com
Filed under Science
Is there a scientific basis for reincarnation? Indian forensic scientist Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan is trying to prove reincarnation is real. He has presented his findings at the National Conference of Forensic Scientists in India.
Chauhan has discovered a six-year-old boy named Taranjijt Singh who says he remembers his previous life. According to his parents, he’s been talking about this since he was two years old and used to run away from home. The boy knew the village he lived in during his former life, as well as his and his father’s names. He knew the name of the school he attended as well. On September 10, 1992, he was riding his bike home when he was hit by a motor scooter. He received head injuries and died the next day.
His present father, Ranjit Singh, says as the boy became more and more insistent, so he and his wife went to the village where he claimed to have lived in the past. At first, they couldn’t find anyone who resembled the descriptions of his former parents. Then someone told him to go to another nearby village, where they met a teacher at the local school who confirmed the story of the motor scooter accident. They found out where the boy had lived and went there to meet the parents.
When they told the family their story, Ranjit Singh mentioned that his son claimed the books he was carrying when the accident occurred had gotten blood on them. He also described how much money he had in his wallet. When the woman heard this, she began to cry and said she had saved the blood-stain books and the money in memory of her dead child. Taranjit Singh’s parents and siblings from his former life soon came to his new home to meet him. The boy recognized a wedding picture his former parents brought with him.
At first, Vikram Chauhan refused to believe this story but he eventually became curious and decided to investigate. He visited both villages and found the boy and both sets of parents repeated the same story. He spoke to a shopkeeper who told him that the boy had owed him the money that was in his wallet when he was hit, and was probably bringing it to him to pay for a notebook he’d gotten on credit.
Chauhan took samples of both boys’ handwriting and compared them. He found they were identical. It’s a basic tenet of forensic science that no two handwriting styles can be identical, because each person’s handwriting has specific characteristics. Experts can usually spot even expertly forged handwriting. A person’s handwriting style is dictated by individual personality traits. Chauhan’s theory is that if the soul is transferred from one person to another, then the mind – and thus the handwriting - will remain the same. A number of other forensic experts examined the handwriting samples and agreed they were identical.
“I have some scientific basis to claim rebirth is possible”, says Chauhan, “but I wish to do more research on the subject and am closely monitoring the development of the child.” Singh’s former parents wanted him to move back with them, but his current family still claims him, even though they are poor. Chauhan says, “In his present birth, Taranjit has never gone to school as he belongs to a poor family, but yet when I told him to write the English and Punjabi alphabet, he wrote them correctly.”
This is just a story to strengthen people’s belief in reincarnation. There is only a picture of a boy and someone who is desperate to prove that this religious theory held by the Hindus is true. I am not convinced. The Hare Krishna guys believe in this theory and so have an interest in wanting to prove this theory to be true.
alakeshwar
Jaya Guru Gauranga. Hey Alakeshwar, below are some google books that you can read online. They present thousands of cases/studies by Dr Ian Stevenson about the validity of reincarnation. Sir Roger Penrose the famous mathematical physicist also proposes some kind of mechanism for this to be possible, definitely worth a read. There is lots of evidence from many Doctors/Scientists/Philosophers and laypeople alike. Do some research if you like.
Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vIDES6VWl1MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ian+stevenson&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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Children who remember previous lives: a question of reincarnation
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HodyPRa7n0wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ian+stevenson&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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Where reincarnation and biology intersect
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VDifR2RT9AkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ian+stevenson&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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European cases of the reincarnation type
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lZgPBE5q2TAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ian+stevenson&cd=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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Orch OR (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) is a theory of consciousness, which is the joint work of theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR
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Reincarnation evidence
http://paranormal.about.com/cs/reincarnation/a/aa081103.htm
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Also there are the moral implications and how the reincarnation process can answer questions such as why some people are born blind et al.
Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Jayate!
Radhacharan Das
This is very interesting, though I’m not sure what to believe.
As Humans, we have so many limitations - can’t see in dark, can’t hear from far away distance. So keeping in mind these limitations, there are lot of things in life that WE may believe but they may OR may not be necessarily correct as our information gathering process is limited. So it does not matter what we believe as whatever we believe might be wrong as well. So the source of information that we can trust on should be little bit higher than us and that source is ancient scriptures e.g. take missile technology, surface-to-surface missile compared to arrows being shot by ancient warriors.
i would like to meet shree vikram singh ji chouhan personally who is investigating this case to make it sure. i believe in it completely. could you plese provid me adress and phone no. of him or email to contact.
thanks.
lokesh
The nature has many knowledge and many phenomenons that are still undiscovered by humans. This is a fact that reincarnation is possible, as even by the theory of science it can be proved that all the incidence that’s taking place have already been executed before in some other frame of space and time, and that these incidence will keep on repeating forever, as the arrow of time moves only in one direction. This theory is more mathematical, and cant be expressed properly in any other language.
Evidence of reincarnation are merely traces of the universal truth that we will continuously be reborn until we get enlightenment and merge with God. There is no need to search for evidence. It is self evident since nothing else can explain why we are born where we are and why we die the way we do.
shri niwas i m very immpresed with yr theory and thank you very much for such a beutiful words,we all are born to die and to reborn until we discover our self to merge with the eternal power,thankyou
if reincarnation and karma wernt true, then we would all be born equally.no one would be rich and no one poor.it doesnt matter whether you believe in it or not.it will always work…even if you dont believe a fire will burn you, it still will if you stick your finger in it.it doesnt need your belief to work.i of course dont believe that krishna is the only supreme power but rather all religions are equal.i also believe there is nothing else but god. even our “bad” or distructive actions are different expressions of god. i think what we call”evil” are just powerful expressions of destructive energies but it all comes from god because there is no other source. correct me if you think im wrong.i like opinions