REBIRTH STORIES PUBLISHED BY DR. STEVENSON

REBIRTH STORIES PUBLISHED BY DR. STEVENSON

No.07. Cemil Fahrici was the reincarnation of Cemil Hayik <-- Click here
No.06. Purnima Ekanayake was Jinadasa Perera in her previous birth <-- Click here
No.05. Dr. Swarnalata Tiwari remember her two previous births <-- Click here
No.04. Doreen's Father John reincarnates as her son William <-- Click here
No.03. Rebirth story of Suzanne, who kept telephoning "Leila." <-- Click here
No.02. Mana Chakravarty reincarnates as Shukla Gupta <-- Click here
No.01. Paramanand reincarnates as Pramod <-- Click here

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07. CEMIL FAHRICI WAS THE REINCARNATION OF CEMIL HAYIK

It may be called a rebirth case where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect. These birthmarks are mostly found to relate to previous birth�s death incident.

The night before the birth of Cemil Fahrici in Turkey, Cemil's father dreamed that a distant relative, Cemil Hayik, entered the home.

Hayik, a folk hero and bandit, had committed suicide during a shoot-out with the police. He had placed the muzzle of his gun to his chin and had set off the trigger with a toe.

When the parents of the newborn boy Cemil Fahrici found a birthmark under his chin, which actually bled and required stitching, they thought he was the reincarnation of Cemil Hayik and named him Cemil.

Their impression was reinforced when the boy began to speak and described events from the life of his namesake.

Ian Stevenson, who investigated the case, discovered that the fatal bullet had exited at the top of the skull, lifting out part of the bone. He therefore asked Cemil Fahrici if he had another birthmark. "Without hesitating," said Stevenson, "he pointed to the top of his head, and we quickly discovered a linear area of hairlessness on the left side of the top of his head"

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Date : 2nd March 2009
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06. PURNIMA EKANAYAKE WAS JINADASA PERERA IN HER PREVIOUS BIRTH

Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia, U.S.A., and Erlendur Haraldsson of the University of Iceland scientifically investigated reported cases of reincarnation in Sri Lanka. I was saddened to learn that Ian Stevenson died on the 7th of February 2007, at the age of 88.

One of the cases reported by Haraldsson is that of Purnima Ekanayake, whom he first met in Sepetmber 1996 when she was nine years old. (Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 64.1, No. 858, pp. 16-25). She was living with her parents in Bakamuna, a small town in the Polonnaruwa district. According to her parents she had been speaking of a previous life since she was three years old. In 1996 she was an intelligent girl at the top of her class. Soon after her birth her mother had noticed a large cluster of birthmarks on the left side of her chest.

These were some of the statements made by Purnima before first contact with her alleged previous family:

1. I died in a traffic accident and came here.
2. My family was making incense and had no other job.
3. We made Ambiga incense.
4. We made Geta Pichcha incense.
5. In my previous life I was married to a sister-in-law, Kusumi.
6. The owner of the incense factory had two wives.
7. My mother's name was Simona.
8. I attended Rahula School.
9. I had lived on the other side of the river from Kelaniya temple, about 145 miles away from Bakamuna.

It is somewhat to be regretted that a written record of Purnima's statements was not made prior to her previous family being traced, although the verbal accounts of her parents and others were very consistent. If such a record had been made it would have been one of the most convincing examples of the reincarnation phenomenon.

The task of tracing the previous family was entrusted to W.G.Sumanasiri, a schoolteacher, in 1993 when Purnima was 5 1/2 years old. His task was made easier by the fact that incense-making is not a popular occupation, and the number of families engaged in this "on the other side of the river from Kelaniya" was limited. Sumanasiri, accompanied by a relative, parked his car at the Kelaniya temple premises and took the hand-driven ferry across the river. They reached the area of Angoda with its satellite towns and densely populated countryside, and inquired about incense-makers. There were three such family businesses, one of which manufactured the brand specified by Purnima.

The owner was L.A.Wijisiri. His brother-in-law and associate, Jinadasa Perera, had died in an accident with a bus as he was taking incense to the market on a bicycle in September 1985. This was about two years prior to Purnima's birth. Jinadasa's home had been 5 to 10 minutes walking distance from the Kelani River.

Sumanasiri's first visit to the Wijisiri family was very brief. A week or two later he accompanied Purnima and her parents to on an announced visit to the house in Angoda. When the group came to the house Wijisiri was not in but arrived a little later. Purnima asked him about her (Jinadasa's) mother and sister who is Wijisiri's wife. The sister was abroad working in Saudi Arabia and the mother was at the ancestral home.

On interviewing Wijisiri and his family it was discovered that the description of Jinadasa previously given by Purnima was substantiially correct: He had died in an accident with a bus, his family was making incense (Ambiga and Geta Pichcha brands), his common-law wife was his sister-in-law (Wijisiri's sister), he had had a second "wife" in Weligama in the South of Sri Lanka, his mother's name was Simona, he attended Rahula school, he lived on the other side of the river from Kelaniya temple.

Purnima had been incorrect on one point - It was Wijisiri, not Jinadasa, who was the owner of the incense factory where Jinadasa worked.

After obtaining permission from the Magistrate's Court of Gangodawila, Dr.Haraldsson was able to to inspect the report of Dr.Kariyawasam, who had carried out the post-mortem on Jinadasa. The injuries had been extensive, including fractures of five ribs on the left side, roughly corresponding to Purnima's birthmarks on the left side of her chest.

The strong points of the case are these :

1. The two families lived 145 miles apart and were complete strangers to one another.
2. Fourteen of seventeen statements made by Purnima regarding her previous life were found to match the facts of Jinadasa's life.
3. Purnima's birthmarks were found to fall within the area of the injuries suffered by Jinadasa.
4. Purnima had some knowledge of incense-making which is highly unusual for a child of nine years (the age at which she was interviewed by Dr.Haraldsson).
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Date : 23/ 02/ 2009
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05. DR. SWARNALATA TIWARI REMEMBERS HER TWO PREVIOUS BIRTHS

Here is a case from Bhopal in India where Dr Swarnlata Tiwari, principal of a Government Arts & Commerce College from Bhopal, popularly known as Naveen College, is a unique case of rebirth. Her case is one of the seven cases in the world over, which scientists have been doing research on the theory of human rebirth. Dr. Swarnlata's case is a unique case in the sense that she not only remembers her immediate previous birth but also of the previous to previous birth.

In an interview Dr. Swarnlata Tiwari narrated interesting events and memories of her three births. The first at Katni in Madhya Pradesh when she was born in a Pathak family, the second in a Goswami family of Silhat (Assam) which is presently in West Pakistan. And now presently she was born in village Shahpur of Tikamgarh district.

Wife of an IAS officer, Dr. Tiwari, 59 at present, has two sons. She has been leading a happily peaceful life with her present family at the same time keeping touch with her previous birth relatives of Katni.

She said past memories flashed back to her when she was passing through a river near Katni at the age of about 4 years. She narrated her past life's incidents to her parents who did not believe all that and ultimately saw a doctor of her mental check up. It was here that the doctor declared her fit saying "she is recalling her previous birth memories."

At the height of all that she was again re-born when she suddenly started singing Assamese songs at the age of 5. This was her previous to the immediate birth. In this life she had died in a road accident in Silhat at the age of 8.

When her case flashed in newspapers, her previous birth brother came to her house whom she immediately recognized as "Babu". He confirmed that she was his sister as she narrated such incidents, which only he and she knew. In that birth her husband was a Tehsildar from whom she had three children. She had then died of heart failure at the age of 39.

Her story may seem interesting and amazing to listeners but not to her as she is now used to it and feels quite "normal".

Strange Facts about Dr. Swarnlata

1. Born on March 2, 1948
2. She scared her parents by claiming that her name was Biya Pathak and lived in katni in past.
3. Biya Pathak died in 1939
4. was reborn as Kamlesh in 1940 at Sylhet in Assam and died in 1947, a very short life.
5. Then, in 1948, Kamlesh was reborn as Swarnlata Mishra at village Shahpur in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh.
6. Remembers all the three births and that every time she was born as a girl child and in all the births in a Brahmin family.
7. Her story of rebirth was investigated by a noted Virginia University Professor Dr. Ian Stevenson when he visited India in 1997 and he found her case as "authentically correct" after intensive confirmation of tales told by Swarnlata.
8. At present she lives at Bhopal. Her husband K.P.Tiwari is a senior IAS officer here and she herself is a botanist and presently posted at Bhopal as the Principal of a Government Arts and Commerce College.
9. She has two sons. Webmaster
Kokolu Ankarao
Date : 23/ 02/ 2009
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04 DOREEN'S MATERNAL FATHER REINCARNTES AS HER SON WILLIAM

"Mom, when you were a little girl and I was your daddy, you were bad a lot of times, and I never hit you!" With these words, William, then a rambunctious three-year-old responding to his mother's warning about a spanking, proclaimed that he had been his maternal grandfather, John.

His mother, Doreen, was initially taken aback by this, but as William talked more, she began to feel comforted by the idea that her father had returned. John had been close to his family and had frequently told Doreen, "No matter what, I'm always going to take care of you." William talked a number of times about being his grandfather and also discussed his death. He demonstrated knowledge that amazed his mother, such as the nickname only his grandfather used for a family cat and the day of the week when his grandfather had died.

William also talked about the period between lives. "When you die, you don't go right to heaven," he told his mother. "You go to different levels�here, then here, then here," he explained, with his hand moving up at each level. He said that animals are reborn as well as humans and that he saw animals in heaven that did not bite or scratch. John had been a practicing Roman Catholic, but he had believed in reincarnation and had said he would take care of animals in his next life. William said he would be an animal doctor and would take care of large animals at a zoo. He also had a birth defect that seemed to match the fatal wound his grandfather had suffered�

A male takes birth as a male. Father John reincarnates as son Willian in the womb of Doreen. He might recollected hid previous birth because of his attachment to his daughter and the same family environment.

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Date : 16/ 02/ 2009
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03 REBIRTH STORY OF A GIRL NAMED SUZANNE, WHO KEPT TELEPHONING "LEILA".

This is the rebirth story of Suzanne, a middle-class Druze girl living in Beirut who believed that she remembered the life of a woman who had died undergoing heart surgery. Her parents told Stevenson her story: When she was 16 months old, she pulled the phone off the hook and said, "Hello, Leila?" into it over and over.

Soon Suzanne claimed that she was Leila's mother. By the time she was 2, Suzanne had mentioned the names of this woman's other children, her husband, and her parents and her brothers - 13 people in all.

At 3, she had recited portions of a funeral oration for the woman's brother. Ultimately, Suzanne begged her parents to take her to her "real" home, and they made inquiries in the Lebanese town the girl insisted she was from.

There they found a family who fit the particulars Suzanne had mentioned. And there they learned that minutes before undergoing her heart surgery, the woman in question had tried desperately to call her daughter Leila.

This family, including a sister of Leila's, confirmed much of what Suzanne had been saying: names, places, the funeral oration. Suzanne identified members of the dead woman's family from photographs.

Though she was a child, she treated the dead woman's grown children as a mother would. She asked if their uncles, when they returned to Lebanon, had distributed "her" jewels to Leila and her sisters - which had been a deathbed request known only to the family.

Stevenson's recourse in such cases is to concentrate on obtaining firsthand testimony about what the child said before the first meeting, and how he or she behaved during it.

The dead woman's relatives gave it, but grudgingly - they had been rocked by Suzanne's claims. That reluctance made their testimony all the more valuable, in Stevenson's view.

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Date : 03/ 02/ 2009
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02 MANA CHAKRAVARTY REINCARNATES AS SHUKLA GUPTA AND IDENTIFIES ALL HER FAMILY MEMBERS

The case history of Sukla Gupta, a little girl from West Bengal is one of 3000 in the files of Dr.Stevenson. When Sukla was a year and half old and barely able to talk, she used to cradle a pillow and address it �Minu, Minu,� she said, was her daughter. Sukla over the next three years also recalled her previous life events, which indicated Minu to be her daughter in her previous life. Sukla was the daughter of a railway worker in Kampa, a village in West Bengal. Sukla often talked not only about her daughter, Minu but also about her husband, the father of Minu. She also talked about his younger brothers Khetu and Karuna . They all lived, she said, at Rathtala in Bhatpara. Sukla�s family, the Guptas, knew little about Bhatpar, that it was a city about 11 miles south. But, they had never heard of a place called Rathtala, nor of people Sukla had named.

Yet Sukla developed a desire to go there, and she insisted that if her parents didn�t take her she would go alone. K.N.Sen Gupta, Sukla�s father, talked about the matter with some friends. He also mentioned it to one of his railway co-workers, S.C.Pal, an assistant station master. Pal lived near Bhatpara and had two cousins there. Through his cousins he learned that Bhatpara indeed had a district called Rathtala. He also learned of a man there named Khetu. Khetu had a sister in law named Mana who died several years before, in 1948, leaving behind an infant daughter named Minu. SenGupta decided to investigate further. With the consent of that family, he arranged for a visit to Rathtala. Sukla said that she could show the way to the house. So in 1959, when Sukla was about five, Sen Gupta and five other members of his family journeyed with her to Bhatapra.

When they arrived, Sukla took the lead. Avoiding possible wrong turns, she brought them straight to the house of Amritlal Chakravarty, her supposed father in law in her past life. As the party approached, Chakravarty happened to be out on the street. When Sukla saw him, she looked down shyly, following the usual custom for a young woman in the presence of older male relative. But when Sukla went to enter the house she was confused. She didn�t seem to be at the right entrance. Her confusion however made sense. After the death of Mana (Sukla�s name in her previous life), the entrance had been moved from the main street to an ally on the side. And the party soon found that Sukla recognized not only the house, but also the people in it, including those she said were her mother in law, her brother in law, her husband and her daughter. In side house, Sukla found herself in room with some 20 to 30 people. When she was asked, can you point out your husband, she correctly indicated Chakravarty.

It is not clear about the circumstances under which Mana died but her strong attachment to her daughter Minu seems to be the prime factor which forced the destiny to play its role in bringing back Mana as Shukla and helped her to with her daughter Minu. In both the lives - Mana and Shukla are born as females.

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Date : 01/ 02/ 2009
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01 PARAMANAND REINCARNATES AS PRAMOD AND IDENTIFIES ALL HIS FAMILY MEMBERS

Reprinted from Life Cycles: Reincarnation and the Web of Life with permission of the author.

Parmod Sharma was born on October 11, 1944, in Bisauli, India. When Parmod was about two and a half, he began telling his mother not to cook his meals for him any longer because he had a wife in Moradabad who could cook. Moradabad was a town about a ninety miles northeast of Bisauli. Between the ages of three and four, he began to speak in detail of his life there. He described several businesses he had owned and operated with other members of his family. He particularly spoke of a shop that manufactured and sold biscuits (cookies) and soda water, calling it "Mohan Brothers." He insisted that he was one of the "Mohan Brothers" and that he also had a business in Saharanpur, a town about a hundred miles north of Moradabad.

Parmod tended not to play with the other children in Bisauli but preferred to play by himself, building models of shops complete with electrical wiring. He especially liked to make mud biscuits which he served his family with tea or soda water. During this time he provided many details about his shop including its size and location in Moradabad, what was sold there, and his activities connected to it, such as his business trips to Delhi. He even complained to his parents about the less prosperous financial condition of their home compared to what he was used to as a successful merchant.

Parmod had a strong distaste for curd, which is quite unusual for an Indian child, and on one occasion even advised his father against eating it, saying that it was dangerous. Parmod said that in his other life he had become seriously ill after eating too much curd one day. He had an equally strong dislike for being submerged in water, which might relate to his report that he had previously "died in a bathtub." Parmod said that he had been married and had five children--four sons and one daughter. He was anxious to see his family again and frequently begged his parents to take him to back Moradabad to visit them. His family always refused his request, though his mother did get him to begin school by promising to take him to Moradabad when he had learned to read.

Parmod's parents never investigated or tried to verify their son's claims, perhaps because of the Indian folk custom that children who remembered a previous life were fated to die early. News of Parmod's statements, however, eventually reached the ears of a family in Moradabad named Mehra which fit many of the details of his story. The brothers of this family owned several businesses in Moradabad including a biscuit and soda water shop named "Mohan Brothers." The shop had been started and managed by Parmanand Mehra until his untimely death on May 9, 1943, eighteen months before Parmod was born. Parmanand had gorged himself on curd, one of his favorite foods, at a wedding feast, and had subsequently developed a chronic gastrointestinal illness followed later by appendicitis and peritonitis from which he died. Two or three days before his death, he had insisted, against his family's advice, on eating more curd saying that he might not have another chance to enjoy it. Parmanand had blamed his illness and impending death on overeating curd. As part of his therapy during his appendicitis, Parmanand had tried a series of naturopathic bath treatments. While he had not in fact died in a bathtub, he had been given a bath immediately prior to his death. Parmanand left a widow and five children--four sons and one daughter.

In the summer of 1949, the Mehra family decided to make the trip to Bisauli to meet Parmod, who was a little under five years old at the time. When they arrived, however, Parmod was away with his family and no contact was made. Shortly thereafter, Parmod's father responded to an invitation from the Mehra family and took him to Moradabad to explore his son's compelling remembrances first hand.

Among those who met Parmod at the railway station was Parmanand's cousin, Sri Karam Chand Mehra, who had been quite close to Parmanand. Parmod threw his arms around him weeping, calling him "older brother" and saying, "I am Parmanand." (It is common for Indians to call a cousin "brother" if the relationship is a close one, as was the case for Parmanand and Karam.) Parmod then proceeded to find his way to the "Mohan Brothers" shop on his own, giving instructions to the driver of the carriage which brought them from the station. Entering the shop, he complained that "his" special seat had been changed. (It is customary in India for the owner of a business to have an enclosed seat--a gaddi--located near the front of the store where he can greet customers and direct business.) The location of Parmanand's gaddi had in fact been changed some time after his death. Once inside Parmod asked, "Who is looking after the bakery and soda water factory?" This had been Parmanand's responsibility. The complicated machine which manufactured the soda water had been secretly disabled in order to test Parmod. When shown it, however, Parmod knew exactly how it worked. Without any assistance, he located the disconnected hose and gave instructions in its repair.

Later at Parmanand's home, Parmod recognized the room where Parmanand had slept and commented on a room screen that he correctly observed had not been there in Parmanand's day. He also identified a particular cupboard that Parmanand had kept his things in as well as a special low table which had also been his. "This is the one I used to use for my meals," he said. When Parmanand's mother entered the room, he immediately recognized her and addressed her as "Mother" before anyone else present was able to say anything. He also correctly identified Parmanand's wife, acting somewhat embarrassed in front of her. She was, after all, a full grown woman and he was only five, though apparently possessing at least some of the feelings of an adult husband. When they were alone he said to her, "I have come but you have not fixed bindi," referring to the red dot worn on the forehead by Hindu wives. He also reproached her for wearing a white sari, the appropriate dress for a Hindu widow, instead of the colored sari worn by wives.

Parmod correctly recognized Parmanand's daughter and the one son who was at the house when he had arrived. When Parmanand's youngest son who had been at school showed up later, Parmod correctly identified him as well, using his familiar name, Gordhan. In their conversation Parmod would not allow the older Gordhan to address him by his first name but insisted that he call him "father." "I have only become small," he said. During this visit Parmod also correctly identified one of Parmanand's brothers and a nephew.

Parmod showed a striking knowledge for the details of Parmanand's world. While touring the hotel the Mehra brothers owned in Moradabad, the Victory Hotel, Parmod commented on the new sheds that had been built on the property. The Mehra family confirmed that these had indeed been added after Parmanand's death. Entering the hotel Parmod pointed to some cupboards and said, "These are the almirahs I had constructed in Churchill House." Churchill House was the name of a second hotel the Mehra brothers owned in Saharanpur, a town about a hundred miles north of Moradabad. Parmanand had, in fact, had these cupboards constructed for Churchill house during his life. Shortly after Parmanand's death, however, the family had decided to move these cupboards to the Victory Hotel.

On a visit to Saharanpur later that fall, Parmod spontaneously identified a doctor known to Parmanand in that city. "He is a doctor and an old friend of mine," he said. During that visit he also recognized a man named Yasmin whom he insisted owned him (Parmanand) money. "I have to get some money back from you," he said. At first Yasmin was reluctant to acknowledge the loan, but after being reassured that the Mehra family was not going to press for repayment, he admitted that Parmod was quite right about the debt.

Paramanad had a strong liking for curd and died of serious illness after eating curd. Paramanand was a dedicated businessman and had a strong attachment to his family and business. The destiny seems to have played its role in bringing Paramanand back to Bisauli as Pramod from where he can get a better chance to meet the family of his previous birth. In both the lives - Pramod and Paramanand are born as males.

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Date : 01/ 02/ 2009
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