dev Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 According to local media reports in Jharkhand capital, Jaitiya Murmu in Kathasakar village in Giridih district, 270 km from Ranchi, believes that his wife Dhani has been reincarnated in the form of a pangolin, an animal that eats ants. His children love it as their mother and the pangolin is being reared with great love and respect and fed with ants. Dhani died in June 2000 and promised on her deathbed that she would soon return to the family in another form, Jaitiya claimed. A few weeks after her death, the pangolin, hardly found in the district, entered the house, went to Dhani's room and lay down on her bed. "We love the mammal as our mother. It is part of our family," said Parmeshwar, her eldest son. "Someone from Orissa wanted to take it for a hefty price. But can we sell our mother?" he asked. In a similar claim made by Nilima Sarkar, a three-year old girl, in Orissa has told her father Bhaba Ranjan Sarkar and mother Sumitra in MV 75 village in Malkangiri district, 620 km from Bhubaneswar, that she was born in the nearby village of MV 64 and had drowned accidentally 20 years ago when she was two-and-a-half. She claims to have been the daughter of Kokan and Rani Sil in her earlier birth, reported the state's only 24x7 Oriya news portal Odisha.com. Her parents even went and verified the story. "She told us several times that she wants to meet the parents from her previous birth as they were missing her a lot and had been depressed since her death," said Nilima's father Bhaba. "We searched if the village and the people revealed by our daughter exist or not. We found it was true," Bhaba was quoted as saying by the portal. "To confirm further, we went to MV 64 village and were surprised when we found the Sil couple who admitted that they had a daughter named Mamata who drowned in the village well." The Sils, who now have a boy and a girl, said they were yet to get over the trauma of losing their daughter so tragically. Nilima also reportedly took her parents to the well to show where she had died, said the portal, carrying photographs of the child and her parents. K.C. Mohapatra, a medicine specialist at the Malkangiri district hospital, said he had never come across any such incident and does not believe it. "Medical science does not approve rebirth," he said. http://www.bihartimes.com/news06/marchall/11apr11.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 "Medical science does not approve rebirth" That's a hilarious comment as medical science does not approve or disprove anything, it is SCIENCE, the search for truth. Rather than outright dismissing the claims, it would be better if he investigated, or at least had an open mind. In any case, there is very little evidence for reincarnation and the evidence that there is is suspect at best. But that hardly rules out the possibility for reincarnation and it hardly disproves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekozuki Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Actually there is more than enough evidence for reincarnation it's just constantly dismissed just like the earth being flat would have been dismissed or heretical 1,000 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Actually there is more than enough evidence for reincarnation it's just constantly dismissed just like the earth being flat would have been dismissed or heretical 1,000 years ago. Where's the solid evidence? The problem with this evidence is that psychology often comes into play, where a child might have heard about another family in some form and they subconsciously integrated that with their own life or something to that effect. There are many other possible interpretations too. However, you are right, it seems that scientists are unwilling to consider reincarnation as an explanation until all other explanations are ruled out. Unfortunately, that's very hard to do and would require extensive studies of which there is little support and funding, and many biases, on both scientific and religious ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chandu_69 Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Where's the solid evidence? The problem with this evidence is that psychology often comes into play, where a child might have heard about another family in some form and they subconsciously integrated that with their own life or something to that effect. There are many other possible interpretations too. However, you are right, it seems that scientists are unwilling to consider reincarnation as an explanation until all other explanations are ruled out. Unfortunately, that's very hard to do and would require extensive studies of which there is little support and funding, and many biases, on both scientific and religious ends. Have a look at this youtube.com/watch?v=_EWwzFwUOxA The child in this video apparently said things which he couldnot have heard. This could be one of those many proofs provided the parents are not lying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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