An Interesting News Item on Rebirth: Girl tracks old parents

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 04, 2005 02:04:11 PM ]

 

NEW DELHI: It was almost like living a miracle for a Gujjar family

based in south Delhi—a four-year-old angel called Manisha walked into

their arms on the shraddh of their daughter who died about five years

ago.

 

Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was their deceased

daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at the age of 15 on December

14, 2000.

 

The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took

to her "past-life parents" as her own.

 

"She ran into our arms when she saw us. She pointed to me and said

voh nahi yeh mere papa hai ," says Chaudhary Kamal Singh, her father

of the last birth.

 

The family have removed the garland that adorned Suman"s photograph

in their living room and are ecstatic.

 

The little girl is now living with her "new" parents and they are a

big happy family.

 

Manisha was born to Rampal and Khilli Devi in a little village called

Milakpur near Alwar, Rajasthan. At the age of two, just the time that

she learnt how to speak, she apparently told her parents that she was

Suman and not Manisha

 

" Voh kehti thi mera naam Suman hai, Manisha mat bolo ," says Khilli

Devi, the mother she was born to in this birth.

 

As she grew older, she apparently started recollecting more about her

past birth and told her "new"" parents that her father"s name was

Kamal and her mother was Santosh.

 

"She told us that she stayed in a threestoreyed house located near a

Kamal mandir with three brothers.

 

She would tell us colors of her school belt and tie—we couldn't

understand her since she had not even started going to school then.

She said she had died of typhoid," said Mallo, her grandmother

of "this birth".

 

The news about the girl spread in the neighboring villages and she

got to her "old" parents through some relatives who live in two

villages in Rajasthan—Tejara and Tihli—which are about 30 km apart.

 

Kamal said, "Someone told us that there is this little girl who could

be our Suman since a lot of details she gave about her past life

matched with us. I went to their village and she just ran into my

arms calling me papa."