On Reincarnation

A few years back I wrote some articles whose title was this: My encounter with God. In one of those articles I wrote the following which was mainly about my paranormal experiences:

Did I hope that these paranormal phenomena would help me prove the existence of God? Yes, I did. This is because I myself possessed, and still posses, one paranormal ability. If “somewhere in this world somebody is going to die”, then I will have a premonition of his/her death days before, and sometimes in one or two rare occasions, even months before, the occurrence of such death. I cannot exactly say who is going to die, but I can with absolute certainty say that very soon I am going to receive the death-news of someone with whom I even may not have any blood-relation at all. Here there are three circles within which such deaths can occur: 1) Family circle, 2) friends circle and 3) last but not the least, the celebrity circle. These celebrities may be local, regional, national, or even international. The only criterion that is applicable in each case here is that the death-news of the person must have to reach me somehow. Now I must explain how I come to know beforehand that “somewhere in this world somebody is going to die”. There are some common symptoms. One such symptom is that suddenly my mood will become off. I will lose all the positive meanings of life. I will lose interest in everything. Everything of this life will seem to me an illusion, a Maya. Whatever I do at present, whatever I propose to do in future, appear to me as nothing but vanity. “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”. When this mood comes heavily on me, I become dead sure that somewhere on earth somebody is going to draw his/her last breath very soon. Then one day again everything will become normal, and I will again find that life is worth living. And I will then get the news of someone’s death either through the newspaper, or maybe over phone, or by some other means, depending on within which circle such death has actually occurred. Another common symptom is that during those days my throat will be choked. It will become extremely difficult for me to utter even a single word. I will feel in those days that if I try to talk to someone, then I will definitely begin to cry. So when it becomes urgently necessary to talk to others, I have to suppress this propensity to cry with some tremendous effort and then only I can speak out. And this constant urge to weep will always be there. I will not understand why I am so prone to weeping. But when I will get the death-news of someone, everything will be clear to me.

Then there is another symptom, the most mysterious of the three. I will feel as if I have been transported somehow in another time, in another century that has long been lost. This time is not the present time, but another time of some bygone century, long, long ago lost from the surface of the earth. The people that I am seeing around me are also not of this present world, but they are all from that lost world. The road I am trotting is also of that lost world. I will feel as if I am in a world that was here on earth many, many centuries ago, but that has gone forever. Thus there will be a veil of unreality over everything surrounding me. When I will have this feeling, I will again know with certainty that “somewhere in this world somebody is going to die”. Although in the first two cases the suffering I have to go through is simply unbearable, still I must have to confess here that when I do have this particular type of experience, I relish it very much. This is because if one can see this present world as an already lost world of some bygone century, then nothing can be more mysterious than that. Physicists may not agree here, but I think this experience is equivalent to some sort of time-travel, because I am seeing this present century as a bygone century. As if my consciousness has somehow gone many centuries ahead of time, and from there it is seeing this present century retrospectively as a long-lost century. If this is not time-travel, then what is time-travel? During such an experience my wife appeared to me so distant in time that it seemed as if she was from some pre-historic period. So I was seeing a woman of some pre-historic age just in front of me! Although it was only an appearance, because it could not be real in any way, still her whole bodily appearance as a woman of some pre-historic century seemed very much real to me.

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But several times it happened that none of these three signs were met, but some death occurred somewhere in this world. What happened in all those cases was this: several times I felt as if I was going to die, but in the end it turned out that I had not died at all, but someone else had died somewhere else. That is, in all these cases my feeling that I was going to die was an indication of someone else's death somewhere else. This feeling that I was about to die, was once so intense that at that time I was filled with lamentation at the thought of my impending death. At that time I was so sure of my death that I was deeply broken inside thinking what would be the helpless condition of my wife and daughter after my death. My wife is sick, and my daughter is still immature, and she hasn't finished her college yet. How will my wife manage the family with her sick body, how will she do the daily marketing or solve other problems of the family, and how will she raise her daughter? I can still well remember how I lamented that I could not fulfill the minimum duty of establishing my daughter in life before my death, before I had to leave this world, leaving both of them quite helpless. After spending three days in lamentation in this way, finally on the fourth day I was shown a vision. That day was Monday, the time would be a little before or after 12 noon. I was going north from the southern room of the ground floor, and had just advanced a foot or two into the middle room, when I saw the scene before my eyes. A human vagina floated in the air in front of me, and what I saw with my naked eyes was this: something whitish was moving from my forehead towards that vagina. This incident happened in the year 2009.

After this terrible experience, I spent several days in a state of obsession, I was in a daze for those few days. Then one day after the rush passed, I was going somewhere by bus. On the bus, I was thinking what God is trying to tell me by showing me this scene? Does God mean that after death man re-enters the mother's womb? Is she reborn again? However, a case-by-case analysis leads to the same conclusion. That is why for the first few days I had a strong feeling that I was about to die. During these few days I never for a moment doubted that I might not die, I was so sure of my death. Then I was shown entering the mother's womb. All this means only one thing: after death, man re-enters the mother's womb, is reborn. That is, by giving this experience, God gave me the message that there is rebirth.

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Case 1: Here is an incident from my daughter's childhood. My daughter started going to school when she was only 2 years and 11 months old. This incident happened before she started going to school. One day suddenly it appeared that she started speaking in a completely unknown foreign language. After speaking in an unknown language for some time in this way she would sometimes stop on her own, then start again the next day. It went on like this for a long time. Her fluency in this unknown foreign language started as suddenly as one day, and stopped suddenly one day. I couldn't understand a single word of what she was saying, nor did anyone else in the house seem to. I was once a member of a film club, and because of that I have seen films from many countries around the world, I have heard the languages of many countries by ear. Based on that experience I can say that the language my daughter spoke at that time was not an Indian language; neither was it Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, or Urdu; neither was it English, French, German, or Italian; most likely it was Spanish or Portuguese. But there's no way to say for sure, since I never once tried to record her words on tape in that unknown language. When my daughter was only a few months old, I recorded her crying on tape, but I don't know why the thought of recording her words in this unknown foreign language never once crossed my mind. But now I realize what a fatal mistake I have made, for I have thereby lost a great evidence of reincarnation, perhaps forever. If the words she uttered at that time were caught on tape, later attempts could be made to find out what language it was, whether the words she uttered had any meaning at all, and if indeed they had any meaning at all, was it really possible for her to know that language at that age, and if it was really impossible, how could she speak it so fluently? But by not having her words on tape, I missed out of all this forever, and what's the point in wailing like a fool now? It was impossible for my daughter to speak another language at that age, and it was even more impossible to speak that language continuously, because how was it possible for her to know another language at that age? The only possible explanation for this phenomenon is that maybe for a few days she regained the memories of her previous birth, during which time she spoke the language of her previous birth. But as soon as that memory was lost, her speaking in that unknown language suddenly stopped one day.

Case 2: Another such case came to my knowledge from the son of my borther-in-law. His only son spoke only in Hindi from the time he learned to speak until he was two-and-a-half years old and could not be fed anything but dal and roti till that age of two-and-a-half years. The elders used to say among themselves that the boy must have been a Bihari (a resident of Bihar Province of India) in his previous birth, hence his speaking in Hindi and eating dal and roti. Later, however, both his habits gradually changed, he learned to speak Bengali and got used to Bengali food. But even here, no evidence can be adduced that he spoke Hindi and not Bengali, because no one ever thought of recording any samples of his speaking in Hindi.

Of course, there is no reason to be so upset now that one or two pieces of evidence have been missed, because the future parents are there. My advice to them: If you find that your children when first learning to speak are speaking in a language that doesn't sound like any language you know, then without delay, arrange to capture their words on an Android phone first. Now that Android phones are almost in every household, there should be no difficulty in making audio-video recording. But make not one, but several audio-videos like that. Later, it will be examined whether the words they have uttered have any meaning or not. And that is how we must collect evidence of reincarnation, because without evidence atheists cannot be convinced of anything. Millions of babies are born in this world almost every day. The world's population is growing at a rate of nearly twenty million every year. So if a period of 100 years is considered, then in these 100 years, about two billion newborn babies will appear worldwide. If it is possible to observe a million children out of these two billion children in the next 100 years, and if these observations give us several thousand instances in which the child is seen speaking a language other than her mother tongue, then in the future the phenomenon of reincarnation could be established on a solid foundation. It would not be a difficult task at all. And when God has given me indication that there is rebirth, then there is definitely rebirth. Now all we have to do is gather evidence for reincarnation. And the way to collect this evidence can surely be understood from Case 1 and Case 2 described above. If a Bengali child is reincarnated after her death and born in a Bengali household, then she will speak Bengali after learning to speak in her childhood and there will be no indication that she has been reincarnated and born again in a Bengali household. But if a non-Bengali or a non-Indian is reincarnated in a Bengali household after her death, and if she is seen in her childhood speaking a language which does not sound like Bengali at all, then that can certainly be regarded as a proof of reincarnation. Finding a person who can remember the incidents of her previous birth may not be so easy, but I think the examples described in Case 1 and Case 2 can be found if properly searched. New babies are and will be appearing in the world every day. So we have plenty of time and opportunity to gather evidence for reincarnation.