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Ranchi/Bhubaneswar, April 11 (IANS) Medical science might
give it short shrift, but reincarnation is real for two
families in India, even touching, and in one case even
verifiable.
While a family in Jharkhand claims it has given shelter
in its home to a pangolin that is actually the reincarnation
of the mother and housewife
who died six years ago, a three-year-old girl in Orissa
claims that she remembers every detail from her previous
birth, including
who her parents were and how she died 20 years ago.
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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.
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