Source- Thoughtnova
An Indian woman named Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987), who claimed to remember her prior life as Lugdi Devi (18 January 1902 – 4 October 1925), was the focus of reincarnation studies. While a different report by researcher Bal Chand Nahata refuted her assertion, a commission established by the Indian political figure Mahatma Gandhi approved it. Other researchers subsequently conducted interviews with her and wrote books and articles about her.
How Did Shanti Devi Live?
On December 11, 1926, Shanti Devi was born in Delhi. The young child began alleging that her parents were not her real parents and that her home was not where she resided when she was just four years old. She then started claiming to remember specifics from her prior existence at that point.
Hundreds of researchers, critics, academics, saints, and prominent public personalities from all across India and overseas analysed it beginning in the middle of the 1930s, making it one of the most comprehensively investigated cases.
The exact story
For the first four years of her existence, Shanti Devi remained silent, but one day she told her family, "This is not my real home! In Mathura, I have a husband and a son. I had to go back to them!
Her family first didn't pay much attention to this, but Shanti persisted. When one of her professors wrote to the address Shanti Devi listed as her real residence, he received a response from Kedar Nath, her former husband, confirming that his wife Lugdi Devi had passed away giving birth to their son approximately fourteen months before the birth of Shanti Devi.
To find out more about Devi's peculiar memories, the friend wrote to a retailer named Kedar Nath in Mathura. The pal was shocked when Nath replied to confirm everything. To assess the issue, Nath also consented to send a relative to Devi's house. The relative was brought before Devi first and introduced as her spouse in an attempt to test her knowledge. No, this was her husband's cousin, Devi answered, not falling for the trick.
Shanti Devi recognised Kedar Nath as her former husband the moment he arrived in Delhi to see her and her parents under a false name. By his admission, Nath stated that Devi's answers to his queries were all true when he asked to talk with her on his own.
He was moved to tears and thought the responses were quite accurate.
This finally led to her travel to Mathura, where she displayed an intimate knowledge of her life as Lugdi Devi by guiding others to their former homes, describing the neighbourhood's appearance in earlier times, and even recognising her sister and son.
As word of this spread throughout India, Mahatma Gandhi eventually visited Shanti Devi and appointed a commission to thoroughly investigate the situation. This is a real instance of reincarnation, according to the Committee of Inquiry's findings.
We can comprehend Shanti Devi's situation's particularity thanks to the candour with which she discussed her experiences in her conversations with Lonnerstrand. Many people have premonitions about future births, an odd sense of familiarity with a new environment or person, or even more vivid dreams or meditation recollections. These are transient experiences by their very nature, and we are distinct from them.
Shanti Devi's experience was particularly unique and intense since she genuinely kept her identity as Lugdi Devi through death and into her subsequent rebirth as Shanti Devi. "My previous existence was still there in me and had never completely ended. The other was more like a fantasy than my actual reality.
In essence, she had the experience of being an adult woman growing up in a child's body, with names, parents, and locations that were not her own, but yet holding onto memories of her adult existence that became more and more specific as she aged.
Conclusion
The foremost expert on reincarnation, Dr Ian Stevenson, stated: "I also interviewed her father, Shanti Devi, and other relevant witnesses, including Kedarnath, the husband she claimed to have had in a past life. According to my study, she made at least 24 memories-related comments that were proven facts. If not proof, it is surely strongly suggestive of reincarnation. For some, it was an unfathomable religious concept that had its roots.
Written by- Hanshu Varandani
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