Is there a scientific basis for reincarnation? Indian
forensic scientist Vikram Raj Singh Chauhan is trying to
prove reincarnation is real. He has presented his findings
at the National Conference of Forensic Scientists in India.
Chauhan has discovered a six-year-old boy named Taranjijt
Singh who says he remembers his previous life. According to
his parents, he?s been talking about this since he was two
years old and used to run away from home. The boy knew the
village he lived in during his former life, as well as his
and his father?s names. He knew the name of the school he
attended as well. On September 10, 1992, he was riding his
bike home when he was hit by a motor scooter. He received
head injuries and died the next day.
His present father, Ranjit Singh, says as the boy became
more and more insistent, so he and his wife went to the
village where he claimed to have lived in the past. At
first, they couldn?t find anyone who resembled the
descriptions of his former parents. Then someone told him to
go to another nearby village, where they met a teacher at
the local school who confirmed the story of the motor
scooter accident. They found out where the boy had lived and
went there to meet the parents.
When they told the family their story, Ranjit Singh
mentioned that his son claimed the books he was carrying
when the accident occurred had gotten blood on them. He also
described how much money he had in his wallet. When the
woman heard this, she began to cry and said she had saved
the blood-stain books and the money in memory of her dead
child. Taranjit Singh?s parents and siblings from his former
life soon came to his new home to meet him. The boy
recognized a wedding picture his former parents brought with
him.
At first, Vikram Chauhan refused to believe this story but
he eventually became curious and decided to investigate. He
visited both villages and found the boy and both sets of
parents repeated the same story. He spoke to a shopkeeper
who told him that the boy had owed him the money that was in
his wallet when he was hit, and was probably bringing it to
him to pay for a notebook he?d gotten on credit.
Chauhan took samples of both boys? handwriting and compared
them. He found they were identical. It?s a basic tenet of
forensic science that no two handwriting styles can be
identical, because each person?s handwriting has specific
characteristics. Experts can usually spot even expertly
forged handwriting. A person?s handwriting style is dictated
by individual personality traits. Chauhan?s theory is that
if the soul is transferred from one person to another, then
the mind ? and thus the handwriting - will remain the same.
A number of other forensic experts examined the handwriting
samples and agreed they were identical.
"I have some scientific basis to claim rebirth is possible",
says Chauhan, "but I wish to do more research on the subject
and am closely monitoring the development of the child."
Singh?s former parents wanted him to move back with them,
but his current family still claims him, even though they
are poor. Chauhan says, "In his present birth, Taranjit has
never gone to school as he belongs to a poor family, but yet
when I told him to write the English and Punjabi alphabet,
he wrote them correctly."
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